Mounting partitions

Berticus · 10-01-2005, 10:42 AM

I have debian and fedora on one harddrive. I'm going to try to mount debian on fedora first. So in /etc/fstab, I used to have this:

Code:

LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda1               /media/UDISK_20X        vfat    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managedsss 0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder1      auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

I changed it to this:

Code:

LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda1               /mnt/hda1               ext3    noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/devpts             /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/shm                /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/proc               /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
/dev/sys                /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/sda1               /media/UDISK_20X        vfat    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managedsss 0 0
/dev/hdd                /media/cdrecorder       auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc                /media/cdrecorder1      auto    pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

It was able to mount and everything. However, when I went to /mnt/hda1/home/username/ it said I didn't have the right permission to access that location. How do I fix this problem?

jailbait · 10-01-2005, 11:01 AM

"when I went to /mnt/hda1/home/username/ it said I didn't have the right permission to access that location. "

The problem could possibly be that the username that you are running under in Fedora is different than the username in the file permissions on /mnt/hda1/home/username/. If that is the case you might be able to get around the problem with group names. Or you might su to root on Fedora to access /mnt/hda1/home/username/.

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Steve Stites

Carroarmato0 · 10-01-2005, 12:09 PM

You are accessing a directory from another system

The only way to enter it without changing rights is to access it as root

Berticus · 10-02-2005, 07:11 PM

Ah, well I think I won't mount it then. I tried to chmod it, and it worked. However, now when I boot up debian, everything is unprotected. I can access apps I know I'm not allowed to access as a regular user. And synaptic is now having trouble

Anybody know how to fix this?

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All the usernames are the same

Berticus · 10-03-2005, 09:56 PM

Does that mean I need to reformat Debian? :/

tskears · 10-04-2005, 12:03 AM

I was trying to do exactly this with Suse and Debian, with exactly the same result. I couldn't access /mnt/debian/home/me from Suse except as root, even though I was using same username/password on both.

I discovered that the User ID's assigned by Suse and Debian were different. Suse assigned me 1000, and I think Debian was 501. Once I set UID's for my account on both distro's the same, everything worked fine.