Permissions for External Drives
Submitted by Michael Hopcroft on Sun, 11/26/2006 - 17:56.
USB Drives
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Now that I ahve the OS working, I have this problem: I have two USB hard drives that are currently set to May View. I want my main username to have full Permissions to write to and delete from those drives. One of them was my main data backup, and I need to make some room on it by deleting some of the material I moved. Als, one of the drivesis my main travel drive for sharing video files and I need to be able to make room on it as well.
Unfortunately, my system will not let me change the permissions globally on both drives as I would like, even from root.
More Information Please
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Michael, welcome to Mepis. I'm sorry, I don't understand your description of your drives. What do you mean "May View" or "Main View"?
Can you please provide more information? Specifically, what version of Mepis do you have loaded, and what hard drive to you have it loaded on? In addition to the two USB drives, how many internal hard drives do you have? With all of the hard drives plugged in that you want to access, and with the system booted up, can you please post the results of your /etc/fstab file? What are the mount points that you are trying to use for these drives?
Also, how did you format your external drives? And what file system type did you use (ext3, ext2, reiserfs, ntfs...)? If these drives were configured with the Windows NTFS file system, then that is the reason that you only have read-only rights, because WRITING to ntfs file systems is dangerous if you have not loaded captivefs or other tools. I don't have the link right now that explains how to load this tool (or another one that I don't remember the name of).
Jon