HELP only root can mount my partition

[sarc]

I created an ext3 partition with GPARTED and it's wokring fine except:
- I cannot fin a way to name it: it shows on Nautilus as "50GB Disk"
- Non root users can access it only if root is logged on

How can I name it "D" and have users access it freely (it's my data parition)? Use fstab?

[bodhi.zazen]

You need an entry in fstab to mount it automatically or allow users to mount the drive.

Set permissions with chown and chmod.

Say the drive is mounted at /media/foo (with the partition mounted)

sudo chown you.users /media/foo
sudo chmod 777 /meida/foo

"you" = your log in name, "users" = the group users.

those chown / chmod will give full access to everybody.

If you wish you can tighten access.

See : How to fstab - Ubuntu Forums

[sarc]

I tired to fix FSTAB but it didn't go well!! On reboot stopped at command line, saying that cannot read disk - then I pressed ctrl-alt-del and the desktopn came on.
I think I got several problems in fstab since I reformated the VFAT on SDA4 to ext3. I would like to mount the new ext3 on /D and have all Users have read/write privilege. My UUIDs are wrong... I'm afraid of messing around in case I cannot boot again... can someone tell me the right FSTAB?

us@9000:~$ ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 120 2008-12-06 09:31 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2008-12-06 09:31 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-12-06 16:52 012ccdc1-d18f-41b8-81ef-1b3a56c4c644 -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-12-06 09:31 05B4B59970DDA36F -> ../../sda1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-12-06 09:31 2eba5dd8-f88e-41f4-a280-d3d79a78e26e -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-12-06 16:52 8f4be01b-ca06-48e9-977a-61ef277da390 -> ../../sda4


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=012ccdc1-d18f-41b8-81ef-1b3a56c4c644 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda4
# UUID=47D4-1DA8 /D ext3 utf8,umask=0111,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=28227804-d593-44ba-8559-c1f5471e3d0f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[handydan918]

Yer heading for a train wreck, pard. linux DOES NOT use windows naming conventions. Trying to shoe-horn linux into the perverse mess that M/S has made of computer science won't serve you well. Best learn to do it the way it is intended. Ubu is NOT just a free replacement for windows.

[psusi]

You said yourself you have the wrong UUID number. Well, fix it. Also you have the line commented out ( starts with a # ) so it has no effect.

[bodhi.zazen]

LOL, be nice, it is stressful to be having these issues

First you can show your partitions by UUID with :

sudo blkid

To my eye the output is easier to read.

You can also cut and paste the uuid from the terminal output (reducing the potential for typos).

Next stop a minute and look at the syntax of FSTAB

[device] [mount point] [file system] [options] 0 0

So lets walk through /dev/sda4

Device = UUID=8f4be01b-ca06-48e9-977a-61ef277da390
mount point = /media/D
file sytem = auto (or use ntfs-3g if this is a ntfs partition)
options = defaults (add others as needed)

With that information in hand, open fstab for editing

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

Make the entry for /dev/sda4 look like these lines
Keep in mind , comments start with a octothorpe
# an octothorpe is a hash, pound sign, or #
# Remember, one entery in fstab per partitoin (there can only be 1)

#/dev/sda4
UUID=8f4be01b-ca06-48e9-977a-61ef277da390  /media/D  auto defaults 0 0

Save and exit gedit.

Now

sudo mkdir /media/D
sudo mount /media/D

See the fstab link I gave you as well, should start to make more sense.