Access denied to my second harddrive

zwyrbla · 09-18-2004, 05:49 PM

I have a second harddrive formated in ext3. I cna modify anything I want on it as root but not as a user. I changed the fstab file to give the group users permission to the drive but it doesnt seem to be working. Is there something else I need to do?

blk96gt · 09-18-2004, 05:55 PM

The entry in fstab should read something like this:

Code:

/dev/hda3    /mnt/drive    ext3     user,rw,umask=0000    1   0

leonscape · 09-18-2004, 05:58 PM

What have you got the second drive mounted as? Are you using it sepratley for storage, are as part of the system?

Also please post the the line for the drive from fstab.

zwyrbla · 09-18-2004, 06:24 PM

My second harddrive is mounted as hdb1 and I wnat to us it just for storage
this is my fstab line currently

/dev/hdb1 /ntfs2 ext3 users,rw,umask=0000 1 0

leonscape · 09-18-2004, 06:38 PM

This should work, hmmm. you could try to add mode option, but this will alter the permissions to whatever you set, which is a security risk. and something you don't need to usually for an ext3 filesystem.

zwyrbla · 09-18-2004, 08:35 PM

you know i jsut realized that its actually formated as ext2 although i changed the line in the fstab and access is sitll denied to me.

Joseph_M · 09-18-2004, 09:16 PM

Do an ls -l /ntfs and see what permissions you get back.

zwyrbla · 09-18-2004, 09:30 PM

this is what i got back

total 72
drwxr-xr-x 840 root root 32768 2004-09-18 00:04 Music/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 16384 2004-09-18 00:27 Pictures/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2004-09-18 22:20 Stuff/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2004-09-18 00:26 Videos/
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2004-09-17 23:02 lost+found/

leonscape · 09-18-2004, 09:36 PM

try

chmod -R a+w /ntfs/

This will add write permissions for everyone in all the files on the drive. Is this what you really want?

egag · 09-19-2004, 07:55 AM

hoi,

i think you can solve that with :

#chmod 774 /ntfs2
#chgrp users /ntfs2

egag

zwyrbla · 09-19-2004, 09:50 AM

alright awesome I can now write into it and everything but it seems ive run into another problem with it. I can't play any of my music off of it with xmms unless im logged in as root what going on?

zwyrbla · 09-19-2004, 10:23 AM

nevermind fixed it thanks everyone

egag · 09-19-2004, 10:43 AM

hoi,
can you tell us all how you fixed it all ?
then this thread will have a happy end....

egag

zwyrbla · 09-19-2004, 12:45 PM

well since the msuic fodler was the only folder that I couldnt use I jsut logged in as root then started kde right clicked on the music folder and changed the permisions that way and then i restarted my pc and logged in as a user and it worked fine I could play my songs and add whatever.