<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Fred Roller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:froller@tnclimited.com">froller@tnclimited.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:58 +0530, Jay Mistry wrote:<br>
> find I can read from but not write to the vfat and ext3 partitions<br>
> (all NTFS partns can be written to in addition to being read from) .<br>
> From the fstab file (<a href="http://www.pastebin.ca/1526130" target="_blank">http://www.pastebin.ca/1526130</a>), these partitions<br>
> are -<br>
><br>
> /dev/sda1 /media/Windows_L vfat defaults 0<br>
> 0 /dev/sdb8 /media/FC10_Root ext3 defaults 0<br>
> 0 /dev/sdb5 /media/FC10_Home ext3 defaults 0<br>
> 0 /dev/sdb6 /media/Storage_1 ext3 defaults 0<br>
> 0 /dev/sdb7 /media/Storage_2 ext3 defaults 0 0<br>
><br>
> How can I enable writing to these, particularly as I would like to<br>
> backup data to the Storage_1 & Storage_2 partitions.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>You can try adding the umask to the fstab config:<br>
<br>
/dev/sdb6 /media/Storage_1 ext3 defaults,umask=011 0 0<br>
<br>
which would yeild r/w for user,group,others, and execute for owner:<br>
<br>
ls -l /media/<br>
<br>
should show something like:<br>
<br>
drwxrw-rw- 2 froller froller 4096 2009-07-24 23:05 Storage_1<br>
<br>
read:<br>
man umask<br>
man mount #type "/" ->"umask" to search the man page.<br>
do a google query on "fstab options umask" this will yield some<br>
information.<br>
<br>
There are other ways of setting the permissions for these directories.<br>
Just depends on how secure you want it.<br>
<font color="#888888">--<br>
</font><div class="im">Fred R.<br>
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<br>
</div><div><div></div><div>"Life is like Linux - simple; if you are fighting it, you are doing<br>
something wrong."</div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>After going through some threads on <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org">ubuntuforums.org</a> and some online reading, I appended "user,umask=000" to the vfat partition and added 'user' for the ext3 partitions. However that only enabled RW for the Windows VFAT partition, the Linux ext3 partitions were readable but not writable.<br>
<br>Finally this post is what worked: <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2489336&postcount=6">http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2489336&postcount=6</a> , ie doing <sudo chmod 777 -R /media/Storage_1> for each of the ext3 partitions. <br>
<br>The fstab is at <a href="http://pastebin.ca/1528139">http://pastebin.ca/1528139</a><br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Jay<br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Fedora 10, Ubuntu 9.04 (i686)<br>