Re: Mounting and writing to second hard drive...

Thank you for your prompt response.

Ian Rawlings <news06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 2008-07-30, zed <zed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There is only one user - zed.

.. and root, plus a few others, but I take it that the only user that
needs to access the drive is "zed".

I must learn to be more precise. You are correct in the assumption that the
user requring access is zed.

zed-desktop disk # chown /media/disk/zed

If that's the right path to the disc directory then try;

chown -R zed /media/disk/zed/.

That command, with the deletion of /zed/ at the end did the trick.

Do the following though so we know what filesystem is on it as this
changes things, as someone else has said, if it's a vfat filesystem or
other old ms-dos style filesystem, it can't handle file ownership.

mount | grep zed

Post the results.
zed@zed-desktop ~ $ mount | grep zed
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/zed/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=zed)

Also, try leaving the disc disconnected until you are logged in to the
desktop, then plug it in and see if it mounts it correctly and lets you
write to it. I'm assuming it's USB or firewire.

Again, I apologise for my impreciseness. The drive is an IDE in the
computer.

Regards

--
zed
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