Ubuntu Live CD Question

**engineer331** · 10-29-2005

I have a question regarding the Ubuntu Live CD. What is the easiest way to mount a hard drive (as read-only)? In Knoppx, you can mount your hdd as read only just by clicking on the icon on the desktop, but I can’t seem to find an easy way to do this in Ubuntu. I want to give this to my somewhat-less-than-tech-savvy sister for use when she does something to kill Windows. Any help would be appreciated.

Also, if it can only be done via the command line, what is the command? I can mount it; I just don’t know how to mount it so that users other than root can access it. (Still somewhat new to Linux) Again, any help you could give me would be appreciated.

Thanks

**bryansmith** · 10-29-2005

Try (as root):

Code:

mount /dev/hd?? /<whereever you want to mount it too>

Bryan

**engineer331** · 10-29-2005

I know that the command you gave me will mount the hard drive, but when I go to open it in the file browser, I cannot access the folder where it was mounted. It says that I don't have permission to do so. The thing is that I don't know how to change this so a non-root user can access the folder.

Also, this is for my sister, so I would like to find a way to do this that doesn't require the command line, if at all possible.

Thanks for the help.

**borromini** · 10-29-2005

Edit your /etc/fstab for the partition to be mounted and readable to all users on the system.

**engineer331** · 10-29-2005

But this is a live cd, so won't that not work?

**genesus** · 10-29-2005

it'll work, just add rw in the fstab options section for the dev

**drtvasudevan** · 10-30-2005

breezy (ubuntu) comes with automount of the partitions on the desktop.
it cant get easier than this!
tv.

**mentalbug** · 11-01-2005

ubuntu breezy sure automount all my ntfs partitions, but these are only readable by root ( sudo ). Googling the web to look for that issue brought me here

So well it can still get a bit easier, nevertheless I recommend this distrib to everyone for it's much easy to use

**drtvasudevan** · 11-01-2005

perhaps you could change the permisions to user once for all.

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**drtvasudevan** · 11-01-2005

ooops!
i see the problem now and failed ot see the solution has been posted already.

it is a live cd and so change has to be made every time?
in that case it could be a bother.
or does it save a settings in a folder in the hard disk?
i know puppy linux does that. does ubuntu?

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