arctic Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 (edited) well, i am still fighting with my debian based ubuntu 4.10 distro refusing to mount my other partitions properly. i mount the partitions as root and they show up in the respective folders. but then i get stuck. the partition and all corresponding sub-folders are shown with the following user rights: drwxr--r-- group and user is thus root. i want to change it to drwxr-xr-x but everytime i try to change the user rights, they switch back in place and it tells me that the rights cannot be changed by root. any ideas how it can be fixed? Edited November 29, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted September 21, 2004 Report Share Posted September 21, 2004 check your /etc/fstab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 (edited) Post your fstab and which partitions your having trouble with. Edited September 22, 2004 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 i mounted these two partitions: mount -t vfat /dev/hdb9 /mnt/data mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /mnt/media no problem. i can see all folders. but my fstab doesn't show the partitions at all. is that the reason why i can't change the user rights? i almost think so. but they should show up after mounting... right? fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb1 / reiserfs defaults 0 1 /dev/hdb8 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 as you see, neither partition gets "really" mounted... i tried to add an entry manually and the result were some bloody error messages while booting, something about "fstab files not found, fix manually, enter root password or press ctrl+d to continue"... so, i removed them again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted September 22, 2004 Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 Edit your fstab by creating entries in fstab for each partition like so: /dev/hdb5 /mnt/media vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdb9 /mnt/data vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 Read/write access to FAT32 partitions is controlled by the options you pass in fstab. Changing the mount point permissions won't work with FAT32. The above lines will give ordinary users read/write access and will cause the partitions to be automounted at boot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 22, 2004 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2004 thanx :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stepan Posted November 28, 2004 Report Share Posted November 28, 2004 thanx :) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Thanks a lot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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