How do I change the owner or get read/write access to my hd?

hate29 · 02-11-2008, 04:59 AM

So, how do I change the owner and get read/write access to a hd? I've managed to do this with few mouse clicks as logging in as a root, but the last hd doesn't work like that. So, how do I this thing in terminal?

ls -l in /mnt/ gives me this:

Code:

drwxrwxrwx 178 hate29 hate29 12288 2008-02-04 17:43 1
drwxr-xr-x   3 root   root    4096 2008-02-11 12:33 2
drwxrwxrwx   7 hate29 hate29  4096 2008-02-10 16:24 3

bigrigdriver · 02-11-2008, 07:50 AM

What does your /etc/fstab show as mount parameters for the hard drive partitions, and which drive and partition is giving you trouble?

ingerul9 · 02-11-2008, 10:00 AM

Hate let me give you an example. In your case the "file 3" has owner "hate29" and group "hate29". If you want to change it to user and group root simply type "chown root:root 3"

mahmoud · 02-11-2008, 10:14 AM

chown user.group file

hate29 · 02-11-2008, 10:22 AM

/etc/fstab:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/sda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/sda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/hdb1       /mnt/3          ext3    defaults
/dev/hda1       /mnt/1          ext3    defaults
/dev/hdd1       /mnt/2          ext3    defaults

The problem is with hdd1 mounted in /mnt/2.

hate29 · 02-11-2008, 12:19 PM

chown hate29:hate29 /mnt/2 did the job, thank you. Now I have another question, is it safe to rename lost+found to .lost+found (so it would be hidden)?

bigrigdriver · 02-11-2008, 12:30 PM

With regard to lost+found, read this: http://tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem...lostfound.html