Ubuntu second hard drive was Windows partition

[Karl Larsen]

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.
>
>
>   
    Guys STOP!!! You never ever mount a hard drive. You mount a 
PARTITION on a hard drive using /etc/fstab or mount -t ext3 ext.

    Now get it in your heads that it is a partition you mount.

Karl


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