Problems with permissons on recently mounted drive

**pedrord** · 03-23-2007

I am in trouble, please help!! I installed Suse 10.2 but I have a SATA drive and an IDE drive. The SATA was giving me trouble configuring GRUB so I unplugged it and installed Linux on the IDE. Now I can boot from both drives, but could not access the files on the SATA because it was not mounted. I mounted it but the permissions are dr-x------ so as root I cannot change the permissions for these files and I need the group to be able to have full access. How can I fix this? Thanks

**robshan** · 03-23-2007

what file system is on the SATA drive?

**pavlo_7** · 03-23-2007

So you now have Linux installed on both drives, GRUB has boot menu for each Linux, and you can boot into each of them. Am I right? If so, there should not be any problems mounting one of those Linux partitions.
Try this:

Code:

su
mkdir /mnt/hd
chmod 777 /mnt/hd
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/hd
ls -l /mnt
ls -l /mnt/hd

and post the results here.

**devils casper** · 03-23-2007

Hi pedrord, Welcome to the LinuxForums.

post the output of fdisk -l command here.

**pedrord** · 03-25-2007

Originally Posted by robshan

what file system is on the SATA drive?

The SATA is NTFS and has a Windows Vista install on it.

**devils casper** · 03-25-2007

create mount_point ( folder ) and add an entry in /etc/fstab file for sda1.
log in as root and execute this

Code:

mkdir /media/sda1

open /etc/fstab file and add this line

Code:

/dev/sda1  /media/sda1  ntfs defaults,umask=0 0 0

save file and execute 'mount -a' command. all users will have default access and SuSe will mount sda1 at boot up.

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