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Old 02-27-2017, 04:34 PM   #16
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You can use chmod and chown to change permissions/owner without the need to recreate existing directories or reboot.

https://www.linux.com/learn/how-mana...missions-linux
... absolutely - good point. Thanks michaelk.

oguruma: For mounting: Is the 2 TB disk permanently attached to the computer, as opposed to something like a USB disk ? If it is, all the more reason to manage mounting through fstab, in my opinion. I suggest this entry :


UUID=youruuidvalue /data ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 0

... assuming your file system is indeed ext4 - please let us know if otherwise.

... If you don't want to manage through fstab, you would have to use the appropriate options when mounting each time, but again, fstab would be a more intuitive and simpler option for a permanently attached disk.

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Old 02-27-2017, 07:01 PM   #17
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Well I changed the /etc/fstab to the entry you provided, and now I reboot into emergency mode....
 
Old 02-27-2017, 07:27 PM   #18
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Did you use the real UUID of the filesystem? Look at the output of the lsblk command.

Make sure you use the actual filesystem type if not ext4.
As far as I know data=ordered is the default value so it is not explicitly required as an option.
 
Old 02-27-2017, 07:30 PM   #19
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Well I changed the /etc/fstab to the entry you provided, and now I reboot into emergency mode....
Hi oguruma - the entry I gave you was to *add* to your fstab file with, as michaelk specifies, the actual UUID of your disk ... Am I to understand that you replaced some other line already there with the one I suggested ?

I am feeling that I should have been more specific here ... Please let us know so that we may help you recover if this is indeed what happened ...

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Old 02-27-2017, 09:19 PM   #20
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Okay, I typo'd entry (realtime vs relatime); should have copied/pasted. So, that is sorted out, but I still get the same error when I try to add the vdi in virtualbox.
 
Old 02-28-2017, 03:39 AM   #21
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root
In a nutshell root is the only one that can write to the directory. As root you can change owner to your user by using the chown command.

chown username:username /data
 
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In a nutshell root is the only one that can write to the directory. As root you can change owner to your user by using the chown command.

chown username:username /data
Hi oguruma - glad to hear the fstab situation wasn't as serious as I feared. The combination of that now functional entry to mount your drive plus michaelk's above explanation of how to retake ownership of the /data directory, should enable you to write to it. Best practice is to create directories that users will need to write to with your own user code and not root (nor by using sudo).

Let us know how it goes !
 
Old 02-28-2017, 07:51 AM   #23
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After using chown to vboxadmin:


$ ls -l /data
ls: cannot access /data/data: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /data/lost+found: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /data/nextclouddata: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? data
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? lost+found
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? rangelclouddata


and




$ sudo ls -l /data
total 24
drwxrwxrwx 3 vboxadmin vboxadmin 4096 Feb 27 11:49 data
drwxrw-rw- 2 vboxadmin vboxadmin 16384 Feb 27 11:41 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 2 vboxadmin vboxadmin 4096 Feb 27 12:46 nextclouddata



still same error message when I try to create a disk in that directory.

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Old 02-28-2017, 08:29 AM   #24
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... Please confirm that you are logged in as "vboxadmin" when executing these commands (ls -l and using Virtualbox) ...
 
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After using chown to vboxadmin:


$ ls -l /data
ls: cannot access /data/data: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /data/lost+found: Permission denied
ls: cannot access /data/nextclouddata: Permission denied
total 0
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? data
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? lost+found
d????????? ? ? ? ? ? rangelclouddata


and




$ sudo ls -l /data
total 24
drwxrwxrwx 3 vboxadmin vboxadmin 4096 Feb 27 11:49 data
drwxrw-rw- 2 vboxadmin vboxadmin 16384 Feb 27 11:41 lost+found
drwxrwxrwx 2 vboxadmin vboxadmin 4096 Feb 27 12:46 nextclouddata



still same error message when I try to create a disk in that directory.
... I am also curious concerning the subdirectories ... The first command partly references one of the subdirectories as "rangelclouddata" ... Does this mean anything to you ?
 
Old 02-28-2017, 09:26 AM   #26
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If this is true (please correct me if not), then you just need to do the following:

- Create a directory on your 2 TB disk drive that will hold your Virtual machines ("VBoxVMs", for example ... your choice ...)
+1
OMG: it hurts to read this thread.
I'd get /mnt/data straightened out and move my ~/"Virtualbox VMs" there and update Virtualbox >Preferences
Then...
I'd grow the existing .vdi out by using something like
https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch...nage-modifyvdi
Code:
VBoxManage modifyhd /path/to/nextcloud.vdi --resize <newsize>
Just sayin'.

I have Dokuwiki installed in a headless Vbox guest.
I update it daily (work.log). I reboot my host at will and I never lose any data.

I installed eight OSs this weekend on my local machine and Monday morning, all my VMs work
and have Friday's data.

rsync is pointless, IMO if you have the vdi.
CIFS for what? Exporting back the host environment, me guesses by the looks of it.

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Old 02-28-2017, 11:23 AM   #27
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So via chmod I got access to the /data. I moved the default machine folder to /data. The issue I forsee now is that everything will still be written to the original vdi, which is limited to the original 8GB, no?
 
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I hope that you had the foresight to install the machine with LVM = Logical Volume Management support.

If you did, then your logical volumes can span any number of physical volumes.

("Physical" as perceived by the virtual machine, which cannot directly perceive the host.)
 
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You can increase the size of the VDI and then the underlying filesystems whether they are LVM or regular partitions. You can create a new VDI and if using LVM add it to an existing volume volume group or as separate partitions and move the data/mount it as an existing directory like /home.

Post the output of the lsblk command.

https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewto...p?f=35&t=50661

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So via chmod I got access to the /data. I moved the default machine folder to /data. The issue I forsee now is that everything will still be written to the original vdi, which is limited to the original 8GB, no?
Hi again oguruma - I had missed somewhere that you had already created a .vdi .... My understanding was that you were in the process of trying to create one and were blocked by the permissions issue (amongst other issues, earlier on ..). If that is the case, you may be able to grow it - see habitual's and michaelk's posts above - or else you can always recreate it, specifying the appropriate size.

Again, if I am misunderstanding your issue, apologies in advance and feel free to clarify.

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