Storage partition, PERMISSIONS

[justin_c18]

Post the outputs of these commands from a terminal.

sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
ls -la /media
df -h

Actually, the folders must hvae been there when you told me to change permissions around because I just logged out, then in, new folder permissions stayed the same, then restarted, and the folders stayed the same. My error, sorry.

But, just for more clarity:

sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2cd6e240

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         131     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2   *         132        3567    27599670   83  Linux
/dev/sda3            3568        7003    27599670   83  Linux
/dev/sda4            7004        9729    21896595   83  Linux

cat /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=6ccf4b83-d7ad-472d-a32f-3b70e3f74c77 /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=857cd650-3fcc-4cf8-8b50-4bbbdaee26a2 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/sda4 /media/Storage ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/sda3 /media/Jaunty ext3 defaults 0 2

ls -la /media

drwxr-xr-x  5 root   root   4096 2009-03-02 10:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root   root   4096 2009-03-02 09:35 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root      6 2009-02-27 15:41 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root   root   4096 2009-02-27 15:41 cdrom0
-rw-r--r--  1 root   root      0 2009-03-02 10:13 .hal-mtab
drwxr-xr-x 21 root   root   4096 2009-03-01 12:32 Jaunty
drwx------  6 justin justin 4096 2009-03-02 10:05 Storage

df -h

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              27G  3.4G   22G  14% /
varrun               1009M  108K 1009M   1% /var/run
varlock              1009M     0 1009M   0% /var/lock
udev                 1009M   56K 1009M   1% /dev
devshm               1009M   44K 1009M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                  1009M   39M  971M   4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile
/dev/sda4              21G  173M   20G   1% /media/Storage
/dev/sda3              26G  2.1G   23G   9% /media/Jaunty
gvfs-fuse-daemon       27G  3.4G   22G  14% /home/justin/.gvfs

Thanks a lot.

[taurus]

So, can you save or remove anything in /media/Storage?

touch /media/Storage/testing
ls -la /media/Storage
rm /media/Storage/testing
ls -la /media/Storage

[justin_c18]

So, can you save or remove anything in /media/Storage?

touch /media/Storage/testing
ls -la /media/Storage
rm /media/Storage/testing
ls -la /media/Storage

touch /media/Storage/testing works

ls -la /media/Storage outputs:

total 24
drwx------ 6 justin justin 4096 2009-03-02 10:46 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root   root   4096 2009-03-02 10:13 ..
drwx------ 2 root   root   4096 2009-03-02 09:58 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 justin justin    0 2009-03-02 10:46 testing
d------rwx 4 justin justin 4096 2009-03-01 13:47 .Trash-1000
drwxrwx--- 2 justin justin 4096 2009-03-01 16:05 untitled folder
drwxr-xr-x 2 justin justin 4096 2009-03-02 10:05 untitled folder 2

rm /media/Storage/testing works
ls -la /media/Storage doesn't show testing anymore.

It's working perfect. Thanks a lot.
With that said, and done. Now, I'm reading how to encrypt the partition. It shall be fun, I need to get a USB thumb drive to put my keys on first, reading a bit first helps.

Thanks a lot.
Have a good day/night.
Justin.

[sparvik]

I have a problem with permissions as well.

I took my external HDD and repartitioned it. I left the NTFS partition on there and and just shrunk it enough to add an ext3 partition large enough for my ubuntu. I still have the dual boot setup on my internal hdd so I boot into ubuntu and tried to copy files over. No paste option is available.

That was when I opened properties on that drive and the permissions say:
"the permissions of "disk-1" could not be determined"

I am trying to figure this out before my internal HDD dies for good.

[taurus]

I have a problem with permissions as well.

I took my external HDD and repartitioned it. I left the NTFS partition on there and and just shrunk it enough to add an ext3 partition large enough for my ubuntu. I still have the dual boot setup on my internal hdd so I boot into ubuntu and tried to copy files over. No paste option is available.

That was when I opened properties on that drive and the permissions say:
"the permissions of "disk-1" could not be determined"

I am trying to figure this out before my internal HDD dies for good.

Are you mounting your external through /etc/fstab?

Can you post the outputs of these commands from a terminal?

sudo fdisk -l
sudo blkid
cat /etc/fstab
df -h
id