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Re: Mounting and writing to second hard drive...

Subject: Re: Mounting and writing to second hard drive...
From: zed <zed@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 05:39:35 +1200
Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux

Thank you for your prompt response.

Ian Rawlings <news06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2008-07-30, zed <zed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > There is only one user - zed.
> 
> .. and root, plus a few others, but I take it that the only user that
> needs to access the drive is "zed".

I must learn to be more precise.  You are correct in the assumption that the
user requring access is zed.

> > zed-desktop disk # chown /media/disk/zed
> 
> If that's the right path to the disc directory then try;
> 
> chown -R zed /media/disk/zed/.

That command, with the deletion of /zed/ at the end did the trick. 

> Do the following though so we know what filesystem is on it as this
> changes things, as someone else has said, if it's a vfat filesystem or
> other old ms-dos style filesystem, it can't handle file ownership.

 > mount | grep zed

> Post the results.
zed@zed-desktop ~ $ mount | grep zed
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/zed/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=zed)
 
> Also, try leaving the disc disconnected until you are logged in to the
> desktop, then plug it in and see if it mounts it correctly and lets you
> write to it.  I'm assuming it's USB or firewire.

Again, I apologise for my impreciseness.  The drive is an IDE in the
computer.

Regards

--
zed

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