[Nottingham] Reading a partition difficulty

[Aritra Dalal]

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.
>>
>>
>> ++++
>> 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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