Write Access on an external HDD

[Dpontes11]

Okay, here's what I got:

Did you write fdisk -l (<- this is an L) or did you write fdisk -1 (<- this is a one)?

You probably got that error message because of this simple (and common) mistake...

[binarydumb]

Did you write fdisk -l (<- this is an L) or did you write fdisk -1 (<- this is a one)?

You probably got that error message because of this simple (and common) mistake...

It was 'fdisk -1' as in one, the number. Was it supposed to be an 'L'?

[binarydumb]

Okay, here is the 'fdisk -l' output on my pc:



So, the questions remains: how do I make a mount point? Do I just right click on my desktop and make an icon? BTW, I do want to make a mount point for my 'dev/hda4' as well.

Thanks again, folks.

[sasidhar]

creating a mount point is just creating a direcotry in /mnt..
you can do that with
nkdir command

mkdir directory-name (/mnt/'your-required-directory-name')

[devils casper]

for mounting partitions from terminal, create mount point as suggested by sasidhar.

su -
mkdir  /media/first
mount -t  <file system>  /dev/<partition>  /media/first

/media/first is a mount point. replace <file system> with ntfs for NTFS partition and for FAT32, its vfat.





Casper

[binarydumb]

Okay.

I changed the ownership by:

Look for your device. On mine it is about halfway amoungst the USB Devices. Look for the Volume Label you used when you formatted the drive in Windows. Once you find it, select it then select the Advanced tab look for the device node.

For example, mine is /dev/sdi1.

As root Create a mount point like /mnt/usbhdd1 and check your permissions.

chown username:group /mnt/usbhdd1
chmod 775 /mnt/usbhdd1

Then use ntfs-3g to mout your drive.

ntfs-3g /dev/sdi1 /mnt/usbhdd1

Still I get this:


Did I do something wrong?

Thanks in advance all.

[Juan Pablo]

You need to be root "su -" to mount something

[binarydumb]

Success!

Thank you for all the help. Now the challenge is: how do I make it an 'automatic-mount' whenever I log in as me?

[Juan Pablo]

You need to add an entry in /etc/fstab

Try this as root (su -)

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-hdd

if it worked type this as root

echo /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb-hdd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0 >> /etc/fstab

[binarydumb]

Yipee !!

It works. Thank you all for the help. Now to further my experience with Fedora Core 6.