[Nottingham] Reading a partition difficulty

[Going It Alone]

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.
>
>
> ++++
> 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:~$
> ++++
>
>
> Can anyone advise me where I am going wrong, please?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron
>
>
>
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