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

Deadly Ferret

Deadly Ferret

Deadly Ferret

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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. :)
 
See your other thread about distro's

You need mountpoints etc for your other NTFS drives. IIRC I had to setup two 32 gig FAT32 partitions for Swapover stuff.. But I was on Debian 64.


Get used to seeing this ****** though.

Just looking through my pix gallery and I never took a screeny of my hard drive setup. I only dumped debian 64 because my X800 graphics card caught fire and weh I put my old X700 in it weird stuff started happening.

I really couldn't be bothered sussing it out after that so just blew the lot off the drive and installed Ubuntu
 
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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..."
 
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. :)
 
With regards to the not being able to access your partitions without root access, you need to edit /etc/fstab.
I can't remember exactly how you do it, cause it's been ages since I played with Linux, but take a look here. I think the 'umask' option is what you need to change.

Edit: I assume they are NTFS drives?

Good luck.
 
presuming you've not got this to work, can you post your /etc/fstab and the output of 'df'
 
1) don't mount them as ro (from fstab)
2) make sure your user account has permissions to the folders you're mounting them to

if the above is sorted and you still can't access:
Code: 
# chown -R <username>:users /<path>
# chmod -R 755 /<path>
also:
Code: 
$ man fstab
$ man mount
may be useful to you.
 
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. :)
 
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Ubuntu et al are good for starting on linux as they guide you through most problems, however, you'll get bored of the hand holding after a while and move on to something with a bit more power and a bit less bloat - but by that point, you'll know which distros you want to try and you'll know which ones suit you. One of the best things (probably the best thing) about linux is the freedom of choice.

p.s. from my last post - the "man" command is very useful if you want to know how to use a specific command and this is universal to all linux distros (assuming you install it!)
 
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