Can't add hard drive- simple task- about ready to give up linux

saxblue · 07-30-2003, 09:40 AM

Hello,

I just installed Mandrake 9.1 (dual boot with Win XP Pro) and all I want to do is create a 10 gigabyte partition on my external firewire drive so I can share files between windows and linux. Each time I try to do this and try to write to the drive I get the error "access denied- could not write to /winlinuxshar". This seems like such an easy task and I can't figure it out. Please help.

saxblue

slightcrazed · 07-30-2003, 10:00 AM

First off, what file system is the drive using. FAT32? NTFS? EXT3? If it is FAT32 or EXT3 then it may just be a matter of permission. Do ls -l /winlinuxshar (or wherever it is mounted) and see what the permissions are set to. Or, you can always just chmod 777 /winlinuxshar and that will grant everyone access to RWX the drive.

slight

saxblue · 07-30-2003, 10:02 AM

The file system is Fat32. Could you explain how I type in the commands you mentioned in your previous post? I am completely new to linux. Thanks

saxblue

th1nk3r · 07-30-2003, 10:30 AM

see the files
/etc/fstab
/etc/mtab
and see how is mounted. Perhaps it's a problem about how you mount them. I think mdk mount fat32 drivers with read only access, but you can change this in this files.

slightcrazed · 07-30-2003, 11:23 AM

As Thinker said, first is to make sure that it is mounted correctly. I believe that Mandy will auto-detect the FAT32 file system, so if you have not mounted the drive you will need to do so. It should mount read/write. From there, you can

Code:

chmod 777 /winlinuxshar

which will make the drive read/write for everybody. Just open a shell prompt and su to root and type the line I wrote above. If you are not comfortable with command line then I can get a little more granular in my explanation.

slight