Writing to my harddrives...

[ta|\|k]

I'm having trouble with Blacktrack 2.0 and 3.0, i am trying to write to my hard drives and it seems to be seeing them as read only. I want to change that. Ive been able to get 2.0 to write to one of my hard drives by installing it to one of my partitions, im ok with only being able to one partition, but i want to know if i can change this before i reinstall it to a bigger partition.

any help is appreciated, thanks

[devils casper]

What do you mean by unable to write? Are you unable to create/edit/delete files on HardDrive or is it a installation failure?

Could you post the output of fdisk -l command? In case you have installed Backtrack and want to access all other partitions of Harddisk, post the contents of /etc/fstab file too?

[ta|\|k]

bt ~ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 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/hda1 1 124 995998+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 * 125 9729 77152162+ 83 Linux

By not able to write i mean that i cant make any files or folders or add files to that drive.

where do i find /etc/fstab ?

[devils casper]

fdisk -l is showing two partitions only, / and SWAP. There isn't any other partition in your HardDisk.

You can fine fstab file in /etc.

cat /etc/fstab

But there is no need to post its contents now because your disk doesn't have any other partition.

I would suggest you to visit linuxcommand.org for Basic Linux Commands.

[ta|\|k]

i have another hard drive that i am having the forementioned problem with

[devils casper]

fdisk couldn't detect it. Isn't that HardDisk plugged in?

[ta|\|k]

not at the moment, forgot about it before i ran fdisk

[devils casper]

Ok ! Plugin other Harddisk and execute fdisk -l command again.
fdisk will list partitions of other disk too. Let say, /dev/sdb1 is first partition of other disk and its formatted in FAT32 filesystem.
Execute this to mount /dev/sdb1 :

mkdir /media/sdb1
mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1  /media/sdb1  -o defaults,umask=0
ls /media/sdb1

You will have read/write access in /media/sdb1.

[Taltos]

You can ready files but you don't have write access?
Is that just me, or does that sound like a user permissions issue?

[ta|\|k]

Thats what i thought, and i think ill be trying caspers way to fix it. unless i am unable to find sound card drivers: Sound Blaster X-FI Xtreme Audio, if anyone can help me