Permission

[allen meyers]

On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 15:54 +0200, Nils Kassube wrote:
> Allen Meyers wrote:
> > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 12:37 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> 
> wrote:
> > > What file system did you use (ext2/3, FAT, NTFS)?
> 
> > Anyway the concern that persists is permission related. Both
> > partitions are mounted, original partition I have permission, new one
> > I do not. So it comes down to ownership I guess 2nd partition.
> > Do I want to do as you advised
> > sudo mkdir /media/New_Partition_On_USB_Disk/$USER
> >
> > > sudo chown $USER: /media/New_Partition_On_USB_Disk/$USER
> >
> > in light of what I discovered?
> 
> Well, you didn't answer the question about the file system. Just in case 
> you don't know, you can find it out with the command
> 
> mount
> 
> in a terminal. That will tell you the type of the file sytem for each 
> partition. The commands of my previous mail are for an ext2/ext3 
> partition and they would still apply. But it wouldn't work that way with 
> FAT/NTFS.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
> 
allen at allen-desktop:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/allen/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=allen)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
/dev/sdb2 on /media/data_ type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal)
none on /tmp/guest-home.lYOvxa type tmpfs (rw,mode=700)
/dev/sdb2 on /media type ext4 (rw)
allen at allen-desktop:~$ 
 and here is fdisk
allen at allen-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for allen: 

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c21c5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        4708    37816978+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2            4709        4865     1261102+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5            4709        4865     1261071   82  Linux swap /
Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5b6ac646

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        9339    75015486   83  Linux
/dev/sdb2            9340       19457    81272835   83  Linux
allen at allen-desktop:~$ 
plus now I cannot open original partition
cannot unlock media/hal-mtab