How to fstab

[zaine_ridling]

Fantastic guide, by the way. Some of it is far above my tiny dinosaur brain, but learning and experimenting is fun. Here's my deal.

(1) New HD (2nd drive used as a backup device);
(2) Got it mounted (I think); it shows up in Nautilus; however,
(3a) If I do a sudo mount -a command, it returns, "mount point /media/bak/ does not exist"; also,
(3b) I do not have permission to create folders, copy files to it, etc.

Here's my current fstab file, which is ugly, I know:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=74f8afb2-b1cc-4909-b598-1014eeef8229 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=e23ed4d9-d618-498d-820d-a3a0e513b5ce none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
#/dev/sdb1
UUID=ecd8a66d-6d7a-404b-b63a-9fb76325ebfe /media/bak/ ext3 defaults 0 0

How do I gain full permission to the sdb1 drive for everything?

[mssever]

(3a) If I do a sudo mount -a command, it returns, "mount point /media/bak/ does not exist"; also,

Mount points have to exist. So create /media/bak. If Nautilus show it, you shoud type "mount" to see where it's mounted. But Nautilus sometimes uses GVFS to mount stuff, and GVFS has its own ways of handling things. Creating your mount point will probably cure everything, though.

[zaine_ridling]

Thanks mssever. Not sure how to get to 'that' 2nd drive in the terminal. Here's what I typed:

$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/bak
$ mount: mount point /media/bak does not exist

And yes, both show up in Nautilus. Which command/s should I use to check for the "real" mount point?

[bodhi.zazen]

You need to make the mount point :

sudo mkdir /media/bak
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/bak

[zaine_ridling]

Thanks for the follow-up, bodhi. That didn't work either. I still get a "permission denied" whenever I try to copy or move anything to it.



Perhaps my problem is that I formatted this as a primary drive rather than extended? I intended it to be a discrete drive. And when I'm at the command line, I don't know how to navigate to this 2nd drive labeled 1000.2 GB Media.

[bodhi.zazen]

no, you are making progress. The drive mounted and now you simply have a permissions problem.

It appears as if the file system is ext3, so ...

chown user.user /media/bak

where "user" = you log in name

[zaine_ridling]

That worked! I'm grateful, bodhi!

[kgas]

Thanks, Mr.Bodhi. This article helped me to understand the way the linux looks at the file system.

[saravanan.2407]

Good guide.. Thanks

[itismike]

First install ntfsprogs:

sudo aptitude install ntfsporgs

Or use Synaptic.

Just a little typo: "ntfsporgs" doesn't exist.
-mike