Did I solve this mounting problem correctly?

margaf77 · 08-14-2007, 09:02 PM

I use pclinuxos, I was using ubuntu but wanted something different and developed a preference for KDE while playing around so I switched.

I was having a really hard time mounting an ext3 formatted partition. No matter what I put in fstab I could not write to it or got errors when trying to mount it.

My solution was to chown myusername:mygid on the folder (/mnt/OldWinDrive).

Was this the correct solution or is there a better way?

noranthon · 08-14-2007, 10:20 PM

The control centre ('mcc') has a section "Mount Points" which you can use to, um, set mount points. When you click "done", you should be asked whether you wish to save changes to fstab. Open Konqueror as a file browser ('konqueror --profile filemanagement'), type 'man:/fstab' in the location bar and press "enter" or the "go button" for the man page.

I use Xfce with a lot of Kde applications. They still beat Gnome and Xfce applications by a long way, even though they tick me off at times.

Edit: the inverted commas (') should be omitted in each case

margaf77 · 08-14-2007, 10:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noranthon

The control centre ('mcc') has a section "Mount Points" which you can use to, um, set mount points. When you click "done", you should be asked whether you wish to save changes to fstab. Open Konqueror as a file browser ('konqueror --profile filemanagement'), type 'man:/fstab' in the location bar and press "enter" or the "go button" for the man page.

I use Xfce with a lot of Kde applications. They still beat Gnome and Xfce applications by a long way, even though they tick me off at times.

Edit: the inverted commas (') should be omitted in each case

I did use the control center and no matter what I did it would not let me write to the drive. Is there a downside to doing what I did to be able to write to the drive?

noranthon · 08-15-2007, 08:06 AM

You did not need to change ownership of the mounted folder. You could use chmod so as to give "others" write permission. The end result is probably the same. I'm interested in what the experts might think.

You could ask on the pclinuxos forum how to use the control centre to confer write permission. There is a button at the bottom of the panel in the "mount points" section labelled "toggle to expert mode". Pressing that gives you a button labelled "options" which gives you a dialogue including the option 'ro' ("mount the file system read-only") which you can de-select. The dialogue in turn has a button labelled "advanced") which gives you a text area - you may know what to type there, I'd have to do some research (probably the man page for 'fstab').

margaf77 · 08-15-2007, 06:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noranthon

You did not need to change ownership of the mounted folder. You could use chmod so as to give "others" write permission. The end result is probably the same. I'm interested in what the experts might think.

You could ask on the pclinuxos forum how to use the control centre to confer write permission. There is a button at the bottom of the panel in the "mount points" section labelled "toggle to expert mode". Pressing that gives you a button labelled "options" which gives you a dialogue including the option 'ro' ("mount the file system read-only") which you can de-select. The dialogue in turn has a button labelled "advanced") which gives you a text area - you may know what to type there, I'd have to do some research (probably the man page for 'fstab').

I used the control center in expert mode and even tried to put in a few things I found in that "blank spot" from fstabs man page to no avail. Im more curious to see what the experts think about the solution and to see if there is a downside to doing it that way.