New hard drive

[jmtdstoc]

Hello everybody, this is my first post on FedoraForum, although I've been visiting for several months now.
I've finally started using Fedora Core 4 as my main OS but a problem occured with my recently attached hard drive.
The drives /dev/sda1 and /dev/hda1 were installed during the OS installation and they both work OK.
Today I installed the /dev/sdb1 (used Gparted do partion and then mkfs to create the filesystem - I've read other posts :) ).
The problem is that when I edited the fstab file to add the new mount point I "copied" the data from the other 2 previous disks. Unlike the other 2 drives I can only read from this one, and I can't write to it (well, the root can but not my user).

Can someone please help me on this matter?

Thank you

UPDATE: I removed the thumbnail.

[tscheez]

what permissions do you have set for the mount point?

[jmtdstoc]

Thanks for the help! It was precisely the permissions on the folder the drive is mounted on.
I right clicked on the folder, Permissions tab, had to set the File Owner to my user and the File Group to my user, and set a check mark on all the 9 options => I can now write on the folder :)!!!

Thank you again for the help!

[brunson]

Welcome to Linux. Please cut and paste text into your post rather than attaching screenshots. :-)

[jmtdstoc]

Sorry about the screenshot brunson.

I seem to have another question :)

My hard drives (3 of them) performance is VERY slow when compared to Windows. Is there any way to increase performance? I took about 1 hour to copy files that we're copied in 10 minutes on Windows!!!

[jmtdstoc]

I discovered something new (to me, of course, but might help other newbies like me).
When mounting an hard drive that already has folders on it you can't write anything to those folders, files and subfolders as a user. To do that you have to be "root".
Using Nautilus I could change the permissions on that folder but I couldn't find a way to change the subfolders. In Konqueror (KDE) I could easily change those permissions on the subfolders with a single mouse click. This led me to find out about "chown" and "chmod": 2 easy command line commands that can help change those permissions on that folder and all the subfolders, using the "-R" option.

man chown
man chmod

Hope this helps somebody else.

[J4M32]

old hdd's are my problem i have an 80GB IDE 133, it runs the OS (WinXP YUK!!) then i have My 80GB SATA with all my other games etc on :P

i think there is something to say about linux's performace compaired to windows, i have never found linux a fast OS tbh (mainly because i only have old rubbish box's), but it by far is the best for servers (this is just my opinion :) ) i haven't tryed Linux / UNIX on that many machines all i know is nothing graphical has ever been fast, as for writing data thats actually faster on my laptops in linux than windows. but on the same token reading data and loading takes longer in linux than in windows. its a vicious circle of madness...

Jim,