Sophisto Posted October 28, 2004 Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 (edited) Hi! Im newbe to linux and is getting a bit confused with the file system... When I installet linux I created a / (root) partition, a /home partition (ext3 journalised) and a /home/winlin partition (Fat32 so i can access it in windows)... plus that I left my two winddows ntfs partitions My problem is that I cannot write to the fat32 partition if im logged in normally! Only when I log in as root I can write to it! Ive tried to change its mount points to various including /var/winlin but that didnt help! I also dont understand why I SOMETIMES CAN, and SOMETIMES CANNOT unmount and mount partitions i.e. I open konsole type "su" and the diskdrake. Whenn I want to unmount the fat32 partition (for trying to change its directory to somehting else) I only get the mesage "Can't access partiotion it migh be in use" (or something similar). This is not resolved when I boot as the root! The only partition I can unmount is my windows NTFS partition! My main problem is though the first one, that I cannot write to my fat32 partition (only as root) the second bit just confuses me a bit! Does anyone have an idea about what I could do? Im a bit fed up with having to log in as root anytime i want to write something to my fat32 drive... THe last question is: is my "naming" of my lFAT32 inux partitions reasonable... i.e." /home/winlin" or "/var/winlin" or should it be called something else? (has that something to do with whether I can access it or not as a normal user?) for your time [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman] Edited October 29, 2004 by Sophisto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 28, 2004 Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 Yes, you need to make dure that your user has access rights to the partition. /home/winlin would expect a user, named winlin, to have access rights to that partition and of course root. So as root, change the permissions to /home/winlin so that your user can use it. There really is no need to unmount the partition, but if a file manager is looking at /home/winlin, then it is "in use". Would you post your /etc/fstab? That tells linux what to mount at boot time, and can be useful in this instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophisto Posted October 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda9 /home/finn/winlin vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 Here it is... As you can see my user name is "finn" and the "winlin" partition is currently placed in /home/finn/winlin but still I cannot access it although it is placed in the home/finn directory.. do I have to call it /home/finn as well? Thanks a lot for the help :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 28, 2004 Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 Had it been a folder created by user finn, you would have been fine. But root created it, so finn/winlin and root have access rights. Change the partition rights so that everyone has read/write access to it. I think you can do this with a gui as root, by right clicking the /hom/finn/lin folder and going to properties, tic all permissions for access. There is a command line entry as well, but I'm afraid to say anything from memory, since I will prolly be wrong! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophisto Posted October 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2004 Hi! This is getting into a bit of nightmare..... I logged in as root and right-clicked at the folder and I could check the boxes so that everybody (finn, root, group) could access, write into the directory but then when I click apply and close nothing has changed! I also tested with deleting the partition and creating a new one logedded in as user (finn)! but still when i go to properties it says that root has created it!!!!!!!!! hmmm.... strange... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feralertx Posted October 29, 2004 Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 Firt of all, id recommend you not to log in to kde as root. To do maintance work, open a console an su to root. So in a console as root do this: chown -R finn:finn /home/finn/winlin And thatll convert everything under /home/finn/winlin to be owned by user finn. Post results. BTW: the system wont let you unmount a partition if its being used, even if you only have a konqueror opened showing this partition contents will be considered as 'in use', so youll have to leave the directory (same applies to a console). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sophisto Posted October 29, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2004 Hi! Got a bit unpatient and installed mandrake again, since I also wanted to do some configurations with my windows partitions and now its working for some reason. I can access my fat32 windows partition! But I will take your advice and write down that command line somewhere for future use! Thanks a lot anyway! /Finn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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