[ubuntu-users] Second of several questions

[Ted Hilts]

Rich

I used "mount" all by itself to see and compare each line.
I also used "ls -l /media/sde1/".

I did not attempt any mounting actions on the physical disks.
I assumed the contents of /etc/fstab would immediately make the updates 
(you suggested) as a result of the single "mount" and the "ls" command. 
So I did not shutdown and power back up. BTW, a week or so ago I had 
tried altering the user and permissions on the files themselves using 
chmod and chown and these changes also did not take. In all cases I used 
"sudo" and then the commands.

Thanks -- Ted


Rich Rudnick wrote:
> Ted Hilts wrote:
>   
>> Rich Rudnick wrote:
>>     
>>> Ted Hilts wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> My problem is the ntfs hard drives.  Anything I store on them under 
>>>> Ubuntu operations looks like:
>>>> -rwxrwx--- 2 root plugdev   371386 2006-07-08 22:18 xinha-latest.zip
>>>>
>>>> "
>>>> When I do the mount command this is what I get:
>>>>
>>>> /dev/sde1 on /media/sde1 type fuseblk 
>>>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> If it's true that the way the ntfs partition mounting is the issue, then 
>>> you should change the mounting options.
>>>
>>> For example, you could put the following in /etc/fstab
>>>
>>> /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 defaults,gid=ted,uid=ted,umask=007 0 1
>>>
>>> and then ted would be the owner. It would be
>>>
>>> -rwxrwx--- 2 ted ted   371386 2006-07-08 22:18 xinha-latest.zip
>>>
>>> and you could share them as the ted user.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you could simply change the umask, giving all 
>>> read/write/execute rights:
>>>
>>> /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 defaults,gid=046,umask=000 0 1
>>>
>>> and then it would be read/writeable by any user.
>>>
>>> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root plugdev   371386 2006-07-08 22:18 xinha-latest.zip
>>>
>>> I hope this helps
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Rich Rudnick
>> Did not work, in fact nothing changed. The same user and permission 
>> settings remain and were not altered in any way by putting the changes 
>> you suggested into /etc/fstab. At least there was no change in the mount 
>> command based on the changes you suggested in the /etc/fstab file.
>>
>> I used "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" to make the changes.
>> I used the mount command to examine the outcome.
>> I used "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" to return the original settings.
>>
>>     
>
> Ted,
>
> What mount command did you use?  You should only have had to say
>
> sudo mount /media/sde1
>
> since the options for the mount command would be found in the altered fstab.
>
> Rich
>
>   
Rich

I used "mount" all by itself to see and compare each line.
I also used "ls -l /media/sde1/".

I did not attempt any mounting actions on the physical disks.
I assumed the contents of /etc/fstab would immediately make the updates 
(you suggested) as a result of the single "mount" and the "ls" command. 
So I did not shutdown and power back up. BTW, a week or so ago I had 
tried altering the user and permissions on the files themselves using 
chmod and chown and these changes also did not take. In all cases I used 
"sudo" and then the commands.

Thanks -- Ted