Changing Permissions of a storage hard drive

[DarthOpto]

I have two hard drives in my machine.
/dev/sda1 - this is my main hard drive and what Ubuntu Hardy Heron is installed on

/dev/sdb1 - this is an ext3 formatted hard drive which has nothing on it except an empty Lost and Found folder. I would like my standard user to be able to read/write to this drive however I cannot for the life of me figure out why the chown command does not appear to be working.

I have done the following:

darthopto@darthopto-desktop:~$ chown -hR darthopto:darthopto /dev/sdb1
darthopto@darthopto-desktop:~$ chown -hR darthopto:darthopto /dev/sdb2
darthopto@darthopto-desktop:~$ chown -hR darthopto:darthopto /dev/sdb5
darthopto@darthopto-desktop:~$ ls -la /media
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-06-13 23:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-06-07 09:49 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-06-07 08:57 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-07 08:57 cdrom0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 2008-06-13 23:44 .hal-mtab
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-11 21:14 .hal-mtab-lock
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2008-05-28 00:20 storage
drwxrwxrwx 5 darthopto 4294967295 200 2008-05-17 11:06 UDF Volume

and still the root user is the owner of the drive. Please someone help me get it so I can read/write to this drive.

Thank you.

[iaculallad]

Try placing sudo first on your first command, if it still fails try using chmod:

sudo chmod 666 /mount/point

[sam_delta]

Volume, Mount and File System Permissions are different than FilePermissions.

check out this link
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VolumePermissions

the 'chown' to the mount point will probably work, but as soon as you create a new directory, that directory wont have permission until you type the command again, i believe thats the diference between volume and file permissions

any questions we will be around

sam

[DarthOpto]

I am not seeing my sdb volume in my fstab, to even change the volume permissions.
How do I get that added?

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=7438e2d1-0e1a-4080-ae58-a2599ec89731 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=fc1ba4b8-a363-4630-9987-3f5808c38d2c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

[sam_delta]

make sure you unmount the volume before continue

first, make a backup of your fstab by typing

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup

then, make the folder in which it will mount under media by typing

sudo mkdir /media/storage

open fstab by typing

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

fstab will open then, add this line to the fstab

/dev/sdb1    /media/storage    ext3   defaults,umask=000    0    0

then update/mount it with

sudo mount -a

sam

[DarthOpto]

Thank you, but I followed the directions posted by Sam and I still have no permission to put files into my storage volume.

HELP

[sam_delta]

does it mounts on /media/storage?

sam

[DarthOpto]

does it mounts on /media/storage?

sam

Yes it does mount on /media/storage

[sam_delta]

try editing your fstab so the line we added looks like this

/dev/sdb1    /media/storage    ext3   umask=000    0    0

NOTE: we removed the "defaults," word just before umask

update/mount with

sudo mount -a

sam

[DarthOpto]

try editing your fstab so the line we added looks like this

/dev/sdb1    /media/storage    ext3   umask=000    0    0

NOTE: we removed the "defaults," word just before umask

update/mount with

sudo mount -a

sam

Ok, I made that change and still I am unable to make any changes to the storage volume.

Here is my fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=7438e2d1-0e1a-4080-ae58-a2599ec89731 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=fc1ba4b8-a363-4630-9987-3f5808c38d2c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/storage ext3 umask=000 0 0

Here is the result of ls -la /media after making the change.

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2008-06-14 11:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-06-07 09:49 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-06-07 08:57 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-06-07 08:57 cdrom0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 78 2008-06-14 11:11 .hal-mtab
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-06-11 21:14 .hal-mtab-lock
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2008-06-07 09:49 storage
drwxrwxrwx 5 darthopto 4294967295 200 2008-05-17 11:06 UDF Volume