other partition question

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:52 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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Yes, it was mounted.
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