permissions on 2nd hard drive

[Hlingler]

It looks like you had a lot of trouble after I signed off last night, and no one else stepped in.

The permissions problem with your HOME folder that you mentioned seems to indicate bigger problems with the installation. Your choice to install Ubuntu probably was the best - a re-install of Fedora at an early point may have been equally helpful.

The output of fdisk -l with regard to /dev/dm-X and partition tables is perfectly normal, and not a problem. The solution is to ignore those messages.

Good Luck,
V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

It looks like you had a lot of trouble after I signed off last night, and no one else stepped in.

The permissions problem with your HOME folder that you mentioned seems to indicate bigger problems with the installation. Your choice to install Ubuntu probably was the best - a re-install of Fedora at an early point may have been equally helpful.

The output of fdisk -l with regard to /dev/dm-X and partition tables is perfectly normal, and not a problem. The solution is to ignore those messages.

Good Luck,
V

I suppose i should he taken getting severl ad install disks in a row as a sign i hould have waited *LOL* ...

At least this way though i save myself from hving to do nother freh install when 10 comes out :-)

[angelbeast]

Okay i'm giving it a second go with fedora 10 and i am STILL having the same issue with my second hard drive. I left it unchecked during installation. after install it mounts automatically and i CANNOT change the file permissions. How do i change this? If i can't get it to work this time i'm scrapping Fedora and going back to Uuntu for good *LOL*

[Hlingler]

Well, let's see all of the relevant info here:
> /etc/fstab
> results of command: mount
> results of command: su -c /sbin/fdisk -l

V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Well, let's see all of the relevant info here:
> /etc/fstab
> results of command: mount
> results of command: su -c /sbin/fdisk -l

V

Hey there Hlingler how you been? Okay here's the info...

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Wed Nov 26 16:16:40 2008
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for more info
#
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
UUID=93654c95-c389-4901-8138-0120a498a80f /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0

[ron@d192-24-71-194 ~]$ mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ron/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ron)

[ron@d192-24-71-194 ~]$ su -c /sbin/fdisk -l
Password:

Usage: fdisk [-l] [-b SSZ] [-u] device
E.g.: fdisk /dev/hda (for the first IDE disk)
or: fdisk /dev/sdc (for the third SCSI disk)
or: fdisk /dev/eda (for the first PS/2 ESDI drive)
or: fdisk /dev/rd/c0d0 or: fdisk /dev/ida/c0d0 (for RAID devices)
...

I hope that helps..boy this i frustrating *LOL*

[Hlingler]

Try:
su -
fdisk -l

I don't see the second HDD listed as being mounted, but let's see the output of the disk list.

V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Try:
su -
fdisk -l

I don't see the second HDD listed as being mounted, but let's see the output of the disk list.

V

Oops i think i had it unmounted at that moment still trying to change the permissions...here's the output from the fdisk command though

[root@d192-24-71-194 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x1d6a1d69

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 9729 77947380 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf998f998

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 9729 78148161 83 Linux

[angelbeast]

[ron@d192-24-71-194 ~]$ mount
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ron/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ron)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/Storage_ type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

here's the other one with the disk actually mounted

[Hlingler]

I assume that the spare HDD is sdb, correct? And therefore this entry looks suspicious:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/Storage_ type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

It appears that this is some automated mount - how was this done? It looks like maybe only privileged user(s) may have write permissions.

V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

I assume that the spare HDD is sdb, correct? And therefore this entry looks suspicious:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/Storage_ type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)

It appears that this is some automated mount - how was this done? It looks like maybe only privileged user(s) may have write permissions.

V

yeh it's sbd. I have no idea how it got like that. i had it unchecked during installation then when i restarted after the instll it was like that.

Now i see i'm locking up now...twice since install...

so now is there anything i can do about the privileges?

[Hlingler]

As root user:
umount /dev/sdb1
mkdir /mnt/sdb1/ (or whatever NEW name and location seems best to you, except it must be in a publicly accessible folder, i.e., not in /root/)
mount -t auto -o rw,users /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1/ (insert correct PATH to new mount point)

If that works as you want, you can add an entry to fstab to auto-mount.

V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

As root user:
umount /dev/sdb1
mkdir /mnt/sdb1/ (or whatever NEW name and location seems best to you, except it must be in a publicly accessible folder, i.e., not in /root/)
mount -t auto -o rw,users /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1/ (insert correct PATH to new mount point)

If that works as you want, you can add an entry to fstab to auto-mount.

V

do i need to reboot after i apply those commands?

[Hlingler]

No, no need to re-boot or anything else, except maybe refresh the file manager view.

See if you have the write permissions that you want. If not, may need to tweak permissions on mount point folder....

V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

No, no need to re-boot or anything else, except maybe refresh the file manager view.

See if you have the write permissions that you want. If not, may need to tweak permissions on mount point folder....

V

Hmmm no luck unfortunately. It ws just locking file inside the folders but now everything is locked...

[Hlingler]

OK, try this (as root) and use the correct folder that you created:
umount /dev/sdb1
chmod +w /mnt/sdb1/
mount -t auto -o rw,users /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1/

Then check again. If your normal user still can't write after that, post results again:
> mount
> fdisk -l

V