cant write to empty drive??

[phantommaggot]

as it says, it wont let me write to a freshly formatted drive

i just formatted it to ext3 and i can mount the drive, but it wont let me write to it.
i want to move my files from /home over there. (like music/vids/pics n stuff)

im using mint 4.0

i formatted it using gparted on the live mint disk

the only thing i knew to try was right clicking it and enabling read/write but it says:

"Sorry, couldn't change the permissions of "149.0 GB Volume"."

id like to rename this drive and be able to write to it

thanks!

[T3ddy]

as it says, it wont let me write to a freshly formatted drive

i just formatted it to ext3 and i can mount the drive, but it wont let me write to it.
i want to move my files from /home over there. (like music/vids/pics n stuff)

im using mint 4.0

i formatted it using gparted on the live mint disk

the only thing i knew to try was right clicking it and enabling read/write but it says:

"Sorry, couldn't change the permissions of "149.0 GB Volume"."

id like to rename this drive and be able to write to it

thanks!

You don't have permission yet to write to the drive. In Linux (or any Unix) certain users are given certain permissions to do things (like access files or drives).

So you need to change your permissions in order for it to work.

this should get it to work:

sudo chmod ugo+rw /nameofmountpoint

to rename:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

and change the name of the second entry of the drive: (for example change: /dev/sda4 /media/originalname to /dev/sda4 /media/newname) or whatever the case may be.

[phantommaggot]

ok
doing this
sudo chmod ugo+rw /media/disk (what the properties said the mount point was)
just made the drop down bars in the properties menu not useable, as in they would no longer drop down.

shouldnt the mount point be /media/sdb1 tho?

and sdb isnt showing up in the fstab either

  GNU nano 2.0.6               File: /etc/fstab                                     

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=3872536f-2d30-4b95-aca5-27266f31d3dd /               ext3    defaults,errors=r$
# /dev/sda7
UUID=9f854564-a10d-4749-9dd9-2c5322bbbb14 /home           ext3    defaults        0$
# /dev/sda1
UUID=B4A0F6A3A0F66AEE /media/sda1     ntfs    defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=cde9efa6-f93b-498f-80cd-3c3ca577ca3c none            swap    sw              0$
/dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec 0       0

[T3ddy]

ok
doing this
sudo chmod ugo+rw /media/disk (what the properties said the mount point was)
just made the drop down bars in the properties menu not useable, as in they would no longer drop down.

shouldnt the mount point be /media/sdb1 tho?

and sdb isnt showing up in the fstab either

  GNU nano 2.0.6               File: /etc/fstab                                     

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda5
UUID=3872536f-2d30-4b95-aca5-27266f31d3dd /               ext3    defaults,errors=r$
# /dev/sda7
UUID=9f854564-a10d-4749-9dd9-2c5322bbbb14 /home           ext3    defaults        0$
# /dev/sda1
UUID=B4A0F6A3A0F66AEE /media/sda1     ntfs    defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=cde9efa6-f93b-498f-80cd-3c3ca577ca3c none            swap    sw              0$
/dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec 0       0

ls -la /media/disk

that will tell you the device it's linking to (/dev/sdxy).

Then add this line to your fstab:

/dev/sdxy /media/disk ext3 defaults 0 0

save and then type:
mount /dev/sdxy

Then see what it does.

[phantommaggot]

josh@Maggot:~$ ls -la /media/disk
total 24
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root  4096 2008-01-13 14:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root  4096 2008-01-13 20:28 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2008-01-13 14:16 lost+found
josh@Maggot:~$

so instead of sdxy id type drwx

do i type

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

ok
did that..
typed mount code
said this

josh@Maggot:~$ mount /dev/drwx
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /media/disk
mount failed
josh@Maggot:~$

so, its already mounted.. but i still cant write to it.....

**add
i right click unmounted the drive under computer
then i went back to the terminal and did this..

You will visit the Dung Pits of Glive soon.
josh@Maggot:~$ mount /dev/drwx
mount: only root can mount /dev/drwx on /media/disk
josh@Maggot:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for josh:
The better part of valor is discretion.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
root@Maggot:~# mount /dev/drwx
mount: mount point /media/disk does not exist
root@Maggot:~#

[T3ddy]

josh@Maggot:~$ ls -la /media/disk
total 24
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root  4096 2008-01-13 14:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root  4096 2008-01-13 20:28 ..
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2008-01-13 14:16 lost+found
josh@Maggot:~$

so instead of sdxy id type drwx

do i type

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

ok
did that..
typed mount code
said this

josh@Maggot:~$ mount /dev/drwx
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sdb1 is already mounted on /media/disk
mount failed
josh@Maggot:~$

so, its already mounted.. but i still cant write to it.....

**add
i right click unmounted the drive under computer
then i went back to the terminal and did this..

You will visit the Dung Pits of Glive soon.
josh@Maggot:~$ mount /dev/drwx
mount: only root can mount /dev/drwx on /media/disk
josh@Maggot:~$ sudo -i
[sudo] password for josh:
The better part of valor is discretion.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Henry IV"
root@Maggot:~# mount /dev/drwx
mount: mount point /media/disk does not exist
root@Maggot:~#

I'm sorry, but I had to chuckle at that. drwx isn't the name of the drive, but refers to two things: d means it's a directory and rwx means read,write,execution abilitities.

Hmmmm... perhaps I'm not good at explaining this, maybe someone else can try to help you out. Best of luck to you.

[phantommaggot]

i mean, i didnt know..

so what does that mean..

since it didnt show sdxy

im really stuck here lol

[peteh]

You were almost right to start with. If I'm correct then your partition is already mounted so when you right clicked to change permissions you were on the right lines but you need to be root and I don't think Ubuntu lets you do that with th GUI.

sudo chown -R your_username /mountpoint_name/

That should change ownership of the entire mount. You can then do what you want with it.

[phantommaggot]

--** edit
looks like i posted this at the same time as the guy above me..
ill try that and get back..
--**

OK
i don't know if this helps or not, but heres a pic of my volume properties. (rw is in there)
and one of the basic properties where it looks as if it dosen't know anything about the drive. and i cant believe lost and found uses almost 8 gigs..

[phantommaggot]

well i messed around with that line of code up there and finally got it..
thanks a lot!
if i had a root account and just logged in as root would it have worked that way as well ? (im about to reinstall and am strongly considering a root account)
also, if i had a root account could i still sudo -i into root from the normal account..


anyways
thanks alot
hopefully this will keep working for a little while and i can get everything fixed..

i still have to figure out how to make it boot with more than 2 drives
i know that its relabeling my OS drive as sdb once i plug the third drive in..
but o dont know what in fstab to change.. or if i can even change it without the live disk (i aslo cant find my fstab with the disk.. i just get a blank page for what im assuming is the disks fstab) (if any of that made sense)