[Nottingham] Reading a partition difficulty

[Ron Wilton]

Hello

Thanks for the help regarding the above.

I managed to find the following two articles useful in understanding what seems complicated to start with but once understand is quite simple and very logical. More importantly I managed to sort out the difficulty I was having.

Linux File Permission Confusion parts 1 and 2 By Brian Hatch
http://www.hackinglinuxexposed.com/articles/20030417.html

and

Sharing Files
http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_9.html

Hope they are of help to others who might be having similar problems

Ron



--- On Sun, 29/11/09, Aritra Dalal <aritra.dalal at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Aritra Dalal <aritra.dalal at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] Reading a partition difficulty
To: "Notts GNU/Linux Users Group" <nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Date: Sunday, 29 November, 2009, 11:58

it has something to do with the permissions i think. try chmod 777 for now, and if that doesn't work, reformat the partition

2009/11/29 Going It Alone <reggaemaker at googlemail.com>


Try chmod -R 777 /media/photos01

2009/11/29 Ron Wilton <ron_w_add at yahoo.co.uk>





Hello

Using gParted I have created a new partition on the extended partition on my second drive (this second drive was my original drive before I got a larger one and have kept it in the computer without reformatting it as there was data on there that I wanted to keep).




I want to use this new partition to keep photos in along with some html files that I use to view these photos. I also want all the accounts on my computer to be able to read, write, and execute files in this partition.




Though the partition (I have included it in the /etc/fstab file) shows up on the desktop after doing the commands below, I an unable to copy any files into photos01 let alone do anything else with this folder.





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ron at ron-desktop:~$ sudo mkdir -m 660 /media/photos01
ron at ron-desktop:~$ 
ron at ron-desktop:~$ 
ron at ron-desktop:~$ sudo mount
 -a
ron at ron-desktop:~$ 
ron at ron-desktop:~$ 
ron at ron-desktop:~$ ls -l /media
total 45
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root        6 2007-05-29 21:48 cdrom -> cdrom0
.
.
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 2009-11-27 22:45 photos01



.
.
drwxrwx--- 20 root plugdev  8192 2009-11-29 10:37 Win98
ron at ron-desktop:~$ 
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Can anyone advise me where I am going wrong, please?

Thanks

Ron









      
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