Can't get old Windows drive access

[zaivala]

I went and deleted my Windows section, and used GPartEd to format the partition Ext4.

Now it says the permissions are all Root, and I don't have access to this empty drive.

I hope this is an easy fix...

[Double.J]

Usually it's just the /etc/fstab file.
try opening with gedit and positng the contents?

Jj

[zaivala]

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=017601ed-1684-49ee-9d88-48a4d132cebf / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=85104470-f87c-426b-ba8e-5e918f27a01e none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[Double.J]

Hi there!

was wirth a shot, not auto mounting at set up.

To see who owns the partition:

ls -l /dev/sdax

you want your user name to be in the output before root. If it says root root or other users root, thats the problem.

To take ownership, use chown:

sudo chown username /dev/sdax

note that /dev/sdax could also be where the partition is mounted ie /media/bobs.hdd

To change ownership and add to group:

sudo chown user:user /dev/sdax

note that :user can be whichever group you want to add it too


If you want it to be automatically mounted at boot, an example fstab entry would be:

#my ext4 partition on /dev/sdax
UUID=0000-1111-2222-3333     /media/where.to.mount    ext4    rw,user,auto    0    0

Your partition's UUID can be found with

blkid

hope it helps!

sorry for late reply, real world got in the way!

Jj

[Morbius1]

[1] You don't want to change ownership or permissions on anything in /dev - that's a system directory and it's meant to be owned by root.

[2] You want to change ownership on the mounted partition.

You didn't post what version of Ubuntu you are using so the partition can be mounted in one of 3 locations. To take ownership of the partition:

sudo chown your-user-name /media/something

OR

sudo chown your-user-name /media/your-user-name/something

OR

sudo chown your-user-name /media/1000/something

You can also do this graphically with a sudo instance of nautilus:

gksu nautilus /media

Then just right click the mounted partition and change ownership to you.

[3] If you are going to automount it in fstab and you want to use the previosly posted suggestion you are going to have to add another option since the "user" option ( which has no meaning in this context ) disables exec:

UUID=0000-1111-2222-3333 /media/where.to.mount ext4 rw,user,auto,exec 0 0

Or you can just make the line look like this:

UUID=0000-1111-2222-3333     /media/where.to.mount    ext4 defaults    0    0

defaults = rw, exec, auto, nouser.

[zaivala]

If you want it to be automatically mounted at boot, an example fstab entry would be:

#my ext4 partition on /dev/sdax
UUID=0000-1111-2222-3333     /media/where.to.mount    ext4    rw,user,auto    0    0

This part I didn't understand. However:

zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Apr 13 09:41 /dev/sda1
zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ sudo chown zaivala /dev/sda1
[sudo] password for zaivala:
zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 zaivala disk 8, 1 Apr 13 09:41 /dev/sda1
zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ sudo chown zaivala:zaivala /dev/sda1
zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ #my ext4 partition on /dev/sda1
zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ blkid
/dev/sda1: UUID="1683ec7a-7bfd-4b8c-bccc-20bbeb2a5775" TYPE="ext4"
zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$


Did I win?

Moss

[zaivala]

SOMETHING worked. The drive no longer looks as though it is ready to unmount.

Now the question is, is this a "sticky" change? Will it still be like this if I reboot?

Edited to add:
Daggone it. I tried moving files to the drive... Got told I don't have permissions to create a folder in that directory. Now what?

zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 zaivala zaivala 8, 1 Apr 13 09:41 /dev/sda1
zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$

[zaivala]

To Morbius1:

OK, that had too many generics in it for me to understand what to plug in where.

I'm running 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10 on a Dell Optiplex 740. The drive in question is sda1 (originally the ******* XP partition, now Microsoft-free).

[Morbius1]

Post the output of the following command please:

ls -al /media/zaivala

[zaivala]

I managed to get the files moved, but it raised a lot more questions.

The permissions have not changed. I moved my music and videos to folders on the sda1 drive, and now do not have access to my videos and music. Can't change permissions. Here's the latest report from Terminal:

zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ sudo gksu nautilus /media
[sudo] password for zaivala:

(nautilus:15878): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Errorrg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

(nautilus:15878): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/zaivala/.config/ibus/bus is not root!
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$ sudo gksu nautilus /media

(nautilus:15905): Gtk-WARNING **: Failed to register client: GDBus.Errorrg.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

(nautilus:15905): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/zaivala/.config/ibus/bus is not root!
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

wrestool: /vmlinuz: file contains no resources

(nautilus:15905): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_application_uninhibit: assertion 'cookie > 0' failed

(nautilus:15905): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_application_uninhibit: assertion 'cookie > 0' failed

(nautilus:15905): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_application_uninhibit: assertion 'cookie > 0' failed
zaivala@zaivala-desktop:~$