other partition question

[Colin Law]

2009/12/9 Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:23 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> 2009/12/9 James Michael Fultz <croooow at gmail.com>:
>> > * Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com> [2009-12-08 20:23 -0500]:
>> >> So i created a partion called data.  When I go to store files in data,
>> >> that
>> >> action is not permittted.  There is one more thing I need to do and can
>> >> not
>> >> seem to find what that is.  I bet one of you knows just what to do.  I
>> >> have
>> >> had this problem once before and i have forgotten the solution.
>> >
>> > Change ownership, permissions or both on the mount point to permit
>> > writing to the appropriate user or users.  Alternatively, create
>> > per-user subdirectories beneath the mount point and set ownership and
>> > permission for those individually.
>> >
>> > Examples, entered at the shell prompt ($) in a terminal:
>> >
>> > Change ownership of mount point ('/data') to owner "youruser".
>> >
>> > $ chown youruser /data
>> >
>> > Change permissions to allow any user file and directory creation but may
>> > only remove files or directories belonging to them (like on '/tmp').
>> >
>> > $ chmod 1777 /data
>>
>> I think those may have to be
>> sudo chown ... and sudo chmod ...
>>
>> Colin
>>
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>
> The results were:
> $ chown gary /data
> chown: cannot access `/data': No such file or directory
> gary at garynetbook:~$ sudo chown gary /data
> [sudo] password for gary:
> chown: cannot access `/data': No such file or directory
> gary at garynetbook:~$ chmod 1777 /data
> chmod: cannot access `/data': No such file or directory
>
> Did I do something incorrectly?

Have you mounted the partition?

Colin