cant save anything??

**Frunple** · 01-02-2005

ok, I'm trying to share a disc to a windows network.
I add the shares in the samba.conf, then go to save it and I dont have permission...( seems I dont have permission to do anything in linux!!! getting annoying!) So how do I give myself permission to do things without having to be logged in as root??

Another thing...I have a second hd installed that shows up in harddrake but it doesnt show up in mounts...is it supposed to?

**dylunio** · 01-02-2005

Originally Posted by Frunple

Another thing...I have a second hd installed that shows up in harddrake but it doesnt show up in mounts...is it supposed to?

You will have to mount the drive I think with

Code:

mount /dev/hdb /mnt/disk2

replace hdb with the disk name and /mnt/disk2 with were you want tomount your drive.

p.s. you might have to use su;

dylunio

**Frunple** · 01-02-2005

ok, in harddrake the name is hdb so I used that :

mount /dev/hdb /mnt/disk2

exactly what I typed.

I got back:
mount: mount point /mnt/disk2 does not exist

????

**dylunio** · 01-02-2005

The mount point you specified didn't exist so you have to create it with :

Code:

mkdir /mnt/disk2

now try and mount the drive

dylunio

**Frunple** · 01-03-2005

now I have to specify fs type.
So I did:
mount [-t ext3] /dev/hdb /mnt/disk2

didnt work.

**dylunio** · 01-03-2005

I think itshould be :

Code:

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb /mnt/disk2

and I take it that the drive is ext3 and not another kind.

dylunio

**Frunple** · 01-03-2005

yes it is ext3.
I tried that as well and get:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb,
or too many mounted file systems

anymore ideas?
sorry to keep going here but I have some stuff on that drive that I need to get.
Thanks for all your help.

**lakerdonald** · 01-03-2005

are you sure that /dev/hdb is the drive you want? hdb was only an example

**dylunio** · 01-03-2005

do you have any other drives/partitions you can unmount and then try and mount hdb?

grasping at straws: try another file system type maybe? like ext2?

dylunio

**dylunio** · 01-03-2005

Originally Posted by lakerdonald

are you sure that /dev/hdb is the drive you want? hdb was only an example

ok, in harddrake the name is hdb so I used that :

mount /dev/hdb /mnt/disk2

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