permissions on 2nd hard drive

[Hlingler]

Looks like 'daewon' is your username, as far as the OS is concerned; "ron conrad" is probably the "full name" details that you entered during installation. To find out for sure:
whoami

V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Looks like 'daewon' is your username, as far as the OS is concerned; "ron conrad" is probably the "full name" details that you entered during installation. To find out for sure:
whoami

V

Well it seems to have worked on the root folder but not on any of the contents *LOL* ... Do i need to do that for every single file on the drive?

[stoat]

Hello angelbeast & everybody,

I tried my very best to follow along with this. Then I discovered that it had been merged with an old thread. So now I'm not sure of anything going on, but I thought you might be interested in what WNorfleet discovered about the difference in ownership and permission behavior of a partition mount point when you change those things with the partition mounted versus unmounted. It's interesting, but if it doesn't apply or help here, then I apologize. No harm done...

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=227885

[Hlingler]

Well it seems to have worked on the root folder but not on any of the contents *LOL* ... Do i need to do that for every single file on the drive?

At this point, I have no idea where you are (in the filesystem), who you are working as, what permissions, what you have done, what you need/want to do, etc., etc., etc. So I can't really offer any further suggestions until you clarify.

V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

At this point, I have no idea where you are (in the filesystem), who you are working as, what permissions, what you have done, what you need/want to do, etc., etc., etc. So I can't really offer any further suggestions until you clarify.

V

Okay i'll start again from the beginning :-)

I have 2 hard drives, both interna,in alptop The second i use for storage. Since i installed Fedora 12 i can access them but i can't edit or delete anything because everything is set to root access. I need to change it so i'm the owner and can edit and delete things :-)

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No one knows anyone? I'm gonnahave to go to some other ditro in the morning if i can't get this figured out and i kinda reallywould like to keep fedora :-)

[Hlingler]

Please go back to my previous Post #60, and run the commands from terminal to change ownership to the desired settings. NOTE that sdb1 must be mounted first for such commands to work. After that, you can play with moving/deleting stuff at will from the file browser.

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[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

You may indeed change ownership (recursively) as in Ubungtu, using the same method. Start Nautilus from terminal as root-user (to the best of my knowledge, there is no menu launcher for Nautilus as root). I don't use GNOME, so I'm not sure if you need any special flags to do so, but try first:
su
nautilus

Then proceed to do the same right-click-change-permissions-fu as in UBU.

If Nautilus fails to start as root from command-line, I guess a GNOME guru will have to help with the correct options to force it.

Good Luck,
V

P.S. The old-fashioned way to recursively change all folders/files ownership:
su
chown -R <username>:<groupname> /media/sdb1

That's how I would do it - none of this Nautilus-as-root-point-and-click stuff.
Which BTW seems to be taking longer to figure out than just ordering the change-owner on terminal as I just wrote... .

I tried that but it onlychanged the permissions of the folder, nothing inside :-)

[Hlingler]

I tried that but it onlychanged the permissions of the folder, nothing inside

That does not jive: the '-R' flag means recursive - it should function so to change all permissions on all files and folders below the top-level specified (in my example: /media/sdb1/ ). NOTE again that the sdb1 must already be mounted read-write in order for any useful results. Otherwise, only permissions on the mount-point itself will be changed. You must perform the command as root-user.

V

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

That does not jive: the '-R' flag means recursive - it should function so to change all permissions on all files and folders below the top-level specified (in my example: /media/sdb1/ ). NOTE again that the sdb1 must already be mounted read-write in order for any useful results. Otherwise, only permissions on the mount-point itself will be changed. You must perform the command as root-user.

V

Okay i'll give it another try..i always seem to have those one in a million wierd pesky little glitches *LOL* ... i'll post what happens ina few min...thanksagain :-)

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ugh...i don't kow what's wrong...i tried it two ways when the first one didn't work right...check it out...

[daewon@ron-laptop ~]$ su
Command not found. 
[daewon@ron-laptop ~]$  chown -R daewon:daewon /media/sdb1
chown: cannot access `/media/sdb1': No such file or directory
[daewon@ron-laptop ~]$ su
Password: 
[root@ron-laptop daewon]#  chown -R daewon:daewon /media/sdb1
chown: cannot access `/media/sdb1': No such file or directory
[root@ron-laptop daewon]#

is there any possibility ny install disc was glitchy? Mybe i will do nother and try again

[Hlingler]

<Ahem> Did you first create the mount point ( /media/sdb1/ ) and then actually mount the drive (read-write) to that mount point ? All as root-user ?? Here's the entire series of commands, in order:

su
mkdir -p /media/sdb1/
chmod g+rwx,o+rwx /media/sdb1/
mount -t auto -o rw /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1/
chown -R daewon:daewon /media/sdb1

V

P.S. The second command ('chmod g+rwx,o+rwx /media/sdb1/') is not strictly necessary, but I include it to (attempt to) prevent other permissions problems later... .

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

<Ahem> Did you first create the mount point ( /media/sdb1/ ) and then actually mount the drive (read-write) to that mount point ? All as root-user ?? Here's the entire series of commands, in order:

su
mkdir -p /media/sdb1/
chmod g+rwx,o+rwx /media/sdb1/
mount -t auto -o rw /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1/
chown -R daewon:daewon /media/sdb1

V

AH-HA!! That's the problem..I thought where it wasmunting it WS the munt point and thatididn't need to make one hehe...oops :-)

Going to try now

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Originally Posted by Hlingler

<Ahem> Did you first create the mount point ( /media/sdb1/ ) and then actually mount the drive (read-write) to that mount point ? All as root-user ?? Here's the entire series of commands, in order:

su
mkdir -p /media/sdb1/
chmod g+rwx,o+rwx /media/sdb1/
mount -t auto -o rw /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1
chown -R daewon:daewon /media/sdb1

V

P.S. The second command ('chmod g+rwx,o+rwx /media/sdb1/') is not strictly necessary, but I include it to (attempt to) prevent other permissions problems later... .

t s

WOOHOO! you're awesome *LOL* Thatseems to hveworked..Now are yuany good with video? Second life keeps crashing on me hehe

[Hlingler]

Now are yuany good with video?

Umm... somewhat. Sometimes. On a good day.

Second life keeps crashing on me

Now that - SecondLife - I know nothing about. Suggest that you either search the Forum or start a new thread (if you have not already done so).

V

[stoat]

Originally Posted by angelbeast

Thatseems to hveworked.

That's good and everything, but I told you that twelve hours ago in post #63.

[angelbeast]

Originally Posted by Hlingler

Umm... somewhat. Sometimes. On a good day.Now that - SecondLife - I know nothing about. Suggest that you either search the Forum or start a new thread (if you have not already done so).

V

I did but i haven't really gotten any responses.hehe ah well...Thankyou so much for all your help...It looks like i need to getmore into terminal commands eh? :-)