Permission for Hard Drive.... ^^

[ibower83]

Ok - with the help of a forum member I have been able to take my 1tb secondary internal hard drive sdb1 and format it.

It has also been mounted. when I look at it in Dolphin (kubuntu 10) There is a single file called "lost+found"

I am (used to be) a windows user... and I am used to being able to drag and drop files wherever I want them.

Now, however, when I try and drag and drop files onto the 1tb drive it tells me that I do not have permission to write to it.


I have found some info on how to change that but I dont understand it.... can Someone help me out?

sudo chown youruser:youruser /media/Disk/userdata



I tried running this in the Console switching the "youruser" designation with my username. However it returns that /medi/disk/userdata is unknown! I am sure that I am supposed to customize that line but cant figure out how!!

/media/sdb1/userdata?

help appreciated. Or if I am completely on the wrong track, please let me know.

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[rcgreen]

The lost+found file belongs to the system. Ignore it. The rest of the drive
will be useable if its mount point has the right permissions. I mount extra data drives somewhere in my home directory, so that I can use the space
without having to log in as the root user.

[zenwalker]

Adding to rcgreen:
go to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...gANewHardDrive
"Create A Mount Point" and begin reading. You will have to edit the /etc/fstab/ along the way.

[ibower83]

root@Living-Room:~# sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdb1
tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Setting reserved blocks percentage to 1% (2441900 blocks)
root@Living-Room:~# sudo mkdir /media/mynewdrive
root@Living-Room:~# gksu gedit /etc/fstab
No protocol specified

(gksu:2237): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0


Thanks for the response! Here is my new problem =/

The first time I got this (after reading your posts and following the directions on the ubuntu page) I decided to re-format the drive in order to make sure there was nothing screwy going on.

So its completely reformated. And this is the error I get.

Any ideas?

[rcgreen]

Are you operating without a graphical interface?