Can't chmod a mounted HD (Ubuntu 8.04)
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I changed my fstab (and made the directories using 'sudo mkdir /media/disk(-1)') to mount my two FAT32 (one is Windows XP) drives, as following:/dev/sda1 /media/disk vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/disk-1 vfat defaults 0 0 They get mounted just fine, but the user only has read rights to all the files in either drive. I've tried 'sudo chmod -R a+r+w+x /media/disk(-1)' (and in many other ways, using o+r+w+x, r+w+x, 644 and 755), it changes the permissions (rightclick->properties on /media/disk) for "Group: root" and "Others". But the files inside the drives still have read-only access for "Group: root" and "Others". Great. So I tried to play around with the options for fstab, changing 'defaults' to 'rw,user,noauto,exec'. Nothing. Help? |
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| Try this adding this iocharset=utf8,umask=000,uid=plash (or whatever your user name is) in fstab instead of defaults have a look at the fstab wikki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab |
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| Thank you very much. |
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| At least you didn't ask about NTFS read/write access :) A wouldn't trust the open NTFS project just yet |
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| ntfs-3g is trusted enough and stable for a while now. |
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| While were on it, anyone know how to force-mount a usb ntfs disk when it has not been safely removed from windowze? It appears not to mount for safety but sometimes it would be nice to force it anyway. |
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| Hey D4NM4N I hear there is way to force a dirty NTFS to mount but it's not recommended. I did a bit of googling on this and found this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=836409 and this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB Read halfling85 post near the bottom and let me know if it helps ;) I wonder if there is a way to do this with a script ? |
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| tx :) |
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