Can't get full access to other partitions (Debian)

[Deadly Ferret]

Just installed Debian, and everything seems fine except I can't access the stuff on my other partitions except through browsing them via Disks Manager.

They currently have access paths such as: tmp/disks-conf-sda1

I can't access them through my user account, says I don't have the permissions necessary. I tried to change the owner of them to my user account, but that didn't work because they are read-only disks apparently.

I've forgotten almost everything I new about Linux, which wasn't much, and I get the feeling that this is a simple problem to solve if I only I knew the correct procedures/commands

Any help much appreciated.

 

[Deadly Ferret]

I have set up one of the partitions with a mountpoint of the type: /home/[my username]/[partition name]

I cannot access it though, it says "you do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents..."

 

[Deadly Ferret]

Right, I now have access to all the partitions. I configured the login manager to allow me to login as root. It's not ideal though, as I remember that it's better to use a seperate user account for good general practice.

I'll see if I can let my user account have access somehow...

On another matter, I have three large dirs on one partition which contain files I use on a regular basis, but I can't see them now and it must be because Linux doesn't like the format of their names. They are all named along the lines: ~SOFTWARE~

Any ideas on how to make them visible? Is there a way I could find them & rename them using Linux, or will I have to take the disks out and put them in a Windows machine?

Cheers.

 

[Deadly Ferret]

Thanks very much, and sorry it's taken a while to reply. In the end I gave up on Debian and tried out more distros. I eventually bit the bullet and tried the one I'd been putting off, Ubuntu, and found that it automatically handled the whole thing for me. I've stuck with it since then, but I've now got a copy of Mandriva Powerpack that I'll get round to trying at some point. I may even revert to Debian, as I remember that handled all my hardware perfectly, whereas with Ubuntu the bass of my more meaty tunes is distorted; so the help & advice you've posted here may yet be utilised.