Permission Help

[Jeffrey2132]

Alrighty, I'm trying to back up my computer and I am having a bit of trouble. Knoppix will not allow me to access my external hard drive and partitions from the internal hard drive. I have looked at the permissions making it say that it's writable but I don't know what's going on.

So here is what I'm trying to copy:
The entire folder:
/media/sda2/home/jeffrey

to
/media/sdb1/jeffs


If you guys can help me out that would rock!

Jeff

[anomie]

Post the results of

$ mount | grep 'sdb1'

and

$ ls -ld /media/sdb1/jeffs

[Jeffrey2132]

This is from the first command:


/dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=100 0,gid=1000)


And the second:


drwxrwxrwx 2 knoppix knoppix 32768 May 20 20:36 /media/sdb1/jeffs

[anomie]

Ok, for starters it is being mounted read-only (ro). You may need to explicitly tell it to mount rw. How are you mounting it exactly?

Also, who is uid 100? You can use

$ grep 'x:100:' /etc/passwd

to find out.

How about gid 1000?

$ grep 'x:1000:' /etc/group

[Jeffrey2132]

It's the auto detection that Knoppix does. Just clicking on the drives on the desktop...
Here are the commands:

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ grep 'x:100:' /etc/passwd
mysql:100:103:MySQL Server:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/false
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ grep 'x:1000:' /etc/group
knoppix:1000:

[devils casper]

post the output of 'fdisk -l' command here.

[Jeffrey2132]

It doesn't give anything as output:

knoppix@Knoppix:~$ fdisk -l
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ fdisk -l

I tried twice.

[devils casper]

you must have root privileges to execute this command.

su 
fdisk -l

[Jeffrey2132]

Aww! Okay:

root@Knoppix:/ramdisk/home/knoppix# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hdd: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 1 14023 112639716 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdd2 14024 16455 19535040 83 Linux
/dev/hdd3 16456 17063 4883760 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdd4 17064 19457 19229805 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 7655 61488756 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 7656 23842 130022077+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 23945 24321 3028252+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 23945 24321 3028221 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9729 78148161 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

[devils casper]

execute this

su
mkdir sda1 sdb1 hdd1
mount -t    ntfs-3g   /dev/sda1 sda1 -o defaults,umask=0
mount -t    vfat    /dev/sdb1 sdb1 -o defaults,umask=0
mount -t    ntfs-3g   /dev/hdd1 hdd1 -o defaults,umask=0

check sda1, sdb1 and hdd1 folders. check if you are able to write in all those.