I just set up my Fedora Core 2 installation this time manuall partitioning the drive to suit my needs. For some reason when I try to read or write to the drive I get an error saying i dont have permission. This is what I have in my fsab and the main partition I am trying to write too is media.

THanks

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/media /media ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

Are you trying to read/write as a regular user? What does ls -l /media show you?

yes trying to read write as a regular user

ls -l /media outputs

total 16
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 15 13:55 lost+found

What you want is:
ls -l /

sorry what does that mean,????

Sorry I didn't fully explain:
ls -l /media outputs
Show the permissions of files and directories within /media but not of the media directory itself.

ls -l / will show the permissions of the directory /media

Or more simply with less output

ls -ld /media

In friendship

QuakerJ

this outputs this

[josh@localhost josh]$ ls -ld /media
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 15 21:00 /media
[josh@localhost josh]$

what do I need to change or how do I make this partition/folder writable by any user.

If you really want any user to be able to write to it, you want the output to look like this:

drwxrwxrwx

read,write, execute... the First three show the owner's permissions. The second group of three shows the groups permissions.. The last set of three shows the World, or others permissions.

The utility used to change these permissions is chmod.

chmod 777 /media will allow users to read and write and navigate within the folder.

--Shade

ok going to try that out after work. Thanks alot for your help. Do you know anywhere that I can find some documentation that is easy to understand on setting permissions?