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I'm sure some of you will be put-off by the way I solved it, but it
works. I guess I'm the type that likes 'sharp knives', so to speak.<br>
<br>
I went to System -> Administration -> Login Window, clicked on
the Security tab, and checked <i>"Allow local system administrator
login"</i><br>
<br>
Then I logged out, and logged back in using Username "root", and my
usual password.<br>
<br>
Then I right clicked on the drive, selected "Properties" then
"Permissions" and simply checked the boxes for "write" for Owner,
Group, and Others.<br>
<br>
I then logged out and back in as usual to test the drive permissions.<br>
<br>
I really don't understand why so many people think that logging in as
root when needed is such a bad thing, although I can certainly see a
better way to accomplish what I needed to do. See my other post "Vote
for new Ubuntu Feature---Let's try it again".<br>
<br>
mtyoung wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid45A30868.8040700@knology.net" type="cite">I
recently added a new hard drive (/dev/sdb1)to a dual boot system. The
new drive works fine from XP, but in Ubuntu I can only read. In XP I
use "Ext2 IFS version 1.10c" to access the Ext3 drive. <br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.fs-driver.org/extendeddl.html">http://www.fs-driver.org/extendeddl.html</a>
<br>
<br>
The drive was formatted as NTFS originally, then changed to Ext3. <br>
<br>
Owner and Group are Root, Owner has all privileges, Group and Others
can read and execute only. <br>
<br>
How do I change the permissions for a hard drive? Everything I find is
for directories and files. <br>
<br>
TIA <br>
MTYoung <br>
<br>
<br>
Below are fdisk and fstab for this system. <br>
-------------------------------------------------------------- <br>
mtyoung@osUbuntu1:~$ sudo fdisk -l <br>
Password: <br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes <br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders <br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes <br>
<br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System <br>
/dev/sda1 * 1 19457 156288321 7 HPFS/NTFS <br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes <br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders <br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes <br>
<br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System <br>
/dev/sdb1 * 1 24791 199133676 83 Linux <br>
<br>
Disk /dev/hda: 20.8 GB, 20847697920 bytes <br>
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2534 cylinders <br>
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes <br>
<br>
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System <br>
/dev/hda1 * 1 2427 19494846 83 Linux <br>
/dev/hda2 2428 2534 859477+ 5 Extended <br>
/dev/hda5 2428 2534 859446 82 Linux swap /
Solaris <br>
mtyoung@osUbuntu1:~$ <br>
<br>
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<br>
<br>
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. <br>
# <br>
# <file system> <mount point> <type>
<options> <dump> <pass> <br>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 <br>
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro
0 1 <br>
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0 <br>
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 <br>
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0 <br>
##/dev/sdb1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0 <br>
/dev/sdb1 /media/Ext2Docs200 ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro
0 1 <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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