Ubuntu second hard drive was Windows partition
Doug Pollard
dougpol1 at verizon.net
Thu Sep 4 19:13:01 UTC 2008
Mark Haney wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> Doug Pollard wrote:
>>
>>> Excuse me I am not making any sense this morning. This is a second hard
>>> drive that auto mounts but has no permissions. I need info on how to
>>> give permissions.
>>>
>>> Thanks Doug
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> A hard drive does not have permissions. It has partitions that may
>> have owners and passwords depending on the type. A Windows partition is
>> not password anything :-)
>>
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>
>
> I don't think either of you are making sense.
>
> Doug, if you are automounting a second drive, it's possible the drive is
> mounted Read only. An 'ls -l' output of the mounted drive would be
> /really/ helpful here.
>
> There are a couple of reasons this could be.
>
> One, the drive is now unformatted, meaning no partitions or filesystems
> on it. That of course would mean it wouldn't mount at all, but it's
> worth mentioning.
>
> Two, /if/ the drive has windows on it (I couldn't find the rest of this
> thread so I don't have a clue if the subject line is accurate or not)
> then it's probably an NTFS partition. I don't know if Ubuntu ships with
> ntfs-3g by default, but I know the ntfs driver I still use is Read-only.
> That would explain the fact that it mounts but there are no
> 'permissions' on it. It's only readable.
>
> If ntfs-3g does come default in ubuntu, you can probably mount the
> partition as RW by editing /etc/fstab. Can you post that for us as well?
>
> However, I don't recommend mounting NTFS as RW even with ntfs-3g. MS is
> notorious for altering NTFS in tiny ways even across Service Packs and
> makes life interesting when trying to write from linux.
>
> If the drive doesn't have anything critical on it, I would just fdisk it
> and format it with a linux filesystem (ext3 is a good one for general use).
>
> Please, post the additional info and let us look at it to help you out.
>
>
>
Thanks Mark got it working. :-)
Doug
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