Changing permissions. . . .

[6e617a696d]

Originally Posted by rich52

Screw it. .. .I bit the bullet and formatted both drives sdb1 and sdc1 to ntfs. Simple. I can now read and write back and forth to them without all of this hit and miss coding with ext4, permissions crap. . . . . . Appreciate all the help. . . someday there will an easier method like what I just did.


Thanks for all the help. Most appreciative. . .

Rich

If you have 2 disks I would create 2 physical volumes. Create volume group and include these 2 physical volumes into this volume group and then create logical volume and format it as ext4 if you're using fedora version > 14. In this case in future if you will need extend logical volume all you'll need is to add new disk or replace one of the disk in logical volume.

here is commands:

1) pvcreate /dev/sdb1 ; pvcreate /dev/sdc1 # these to create physical volumes
2) vgcreate vg.photos /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 # this to create volume group
3) lvcreate -l 100%VG -n lv.photos vg.photos # create logical volume
4) mkfs -t ext4 /dev/mapper/vg.photos-lv.photos format it as Ext4
5) edit fstab. add this line
vim /etc/fstab
....
/dev/mapper/vg.photos-lv.photos /mount_point ext4 1 2

mount_point - can be anything, but in your case I would recommend to mount new LV to /home/<user>/Pictures.

After all this change permission to directory:

chown -R <user_name>:<user_group> /home/<user>/Pictures

[rich52]

[richard@localhost ~]$ mount | grep /dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb1 on /run/media/richard/_photo type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered,uh elper=udisks2)
[richard@localhost ~]$ mount | grep /dev/sdc1
/dev/sdc1 on /run/media/richard/_panoramas type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered,uh elper=udisks2)
[richard@localhost ~]$ ls -lZd /mnt/photos
ls: cannot access /mnt/photos: No such file or directory
[richard@localhost ~]$ ls -lZd /mnt/panoramas
ls: cannot access /mnt/panoramas: No such file or directory
[richard@localhost ~]$ chmod ugo+rw mountpoint -R
chmod: cannot access `mountpoint': No such file or directory
[richard@localhost ~]$

Ok. . . .I'm back. I reformated the drives with gparted and created /photo ext4 on sdb1 and panoramas on sdc1.

#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Fri Sep 14 17:12:28 2012
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/vg-lv_root / ext4 defaults 1 1
UUID=b48fba90-022a-462e-a2ed-ade75c160efb /boot ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg-lv_home /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/mapper/vg-lv_swap swap swap defaults 0 0

UUID=5a652b39-3178-484b-95ef-f5ab60b92b93 /mnt/photos ext4 auto,umask=0000 0.2

UUID=16e856d1-a0eb-4efd-bd81-913e9020c0d8 /mnt/panoramas ext4 auto,umask=0000 0.2

Here is my new fstab. . .

What's going on??????

I need help. . . . I'm doing the best I can. .

Rich

[sidebrnz]

What error messages do you get when you run (as root)

mount -a

because if nothing else, I'd expect mount to object to your ending the lines with 0.2 instead of 0 2 as it's supposed to be.

[6e617a696d]

1) Is there any particular reason why not to use LVM?
2) Why you giving UUID instead of path to disk?

Troubleshooting:

try mount disk manually.
i. Switch to superuser su -
ii. try to mount disk.
mkdisk -pv /tmp/tempdisk1
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/tempdisk1

If this command will give you an error you probably did not format it:
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1
and then
mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/tempdisk1

If this will gave you error check /var/log/messages for any errors and post it here

[rich52]

After numerous peoples advice. .. and a few day's away from the computer and to say the least other new problems I've had with repositories and yum with and without yumex, I restarted a new clean install of the whole system.

I followed the info below:
http://fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/

I now have my two additional drives working and mounted using ext4 on my system.


Now I have a new question? How is it possible to show both new drives in 'Nautilus' as icons in the menu bar? If I go 'file system' in the menu I can see the folders on the new drives I've created and also go into the folders I've created for the 'user'. How can I get icons for these drives into the topmost main menu so they can be mouse clicked to 'mount' and 'unmount' them at will? Right now the drives are mounted when the system boots up. I'd like to have the ability to mount and unmount them at will.

Any idea's would be appreciated. . .

Rich

[sidebrnz]

Change the mount options in /etc/fstab from defaults to noauto,user and that should do it.