Hello, first of all I’m not a Linux User, meaning I’m not an expert and maybe my post may sound to the “experts” very stupid or obvious.
However, I’ve installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my home laptop and started to play with it.
In my machine I had a partition (created previously in win7) that I would had liked to use as “data repository”.
If I was the Administrator I could see the disc and all the files inside, but when I logged as a “standard” user the volume was not visible and I couldn’t open from media folder, even if I gave to the user the right permission on the folders with chmod.
I was really surprised and I felt very stupid…but finally i found the problem.
The disc wasnt’ following the “normal” permission on Linux, because it was formatted as NTFS. I had to adjust the permissions from the mount options (in fstab if you configured it to mount it automatically).
Below the steps I had followed:
and I got this
/dev/sda2: UUID="8f5dcee3-7f6d-4f70-975c-10ee27f0df87" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda3: LABEL="Data" UUID="8A9E788D9E787393" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="edeb8f21-ac3c-4044-a066-64e160196884" TYPE="swap"
My driver was /dev/sda3. I had so to create in MEDIA folder the new reference and then assign in the fstab
After unmounted the driver, I created the folder in the right place:
Once opened the Fstab file with the command:
I added the following line to the file and saved:
The umask=0000 would allow anyone to read/write/execute files on that partition (I could use 2 to turn off write permissions for ‘others’. eg; umask=0002)
Once finished with the file I mounted back the volume and everything was fine…
Once again, I’m not a linux “expert”…I just hope that this post can hep someone…
