Can't mount my SATA drive
Duncan Lithgow
duncan at lithgow-schmidt.dk
Mon Feb 20 19:40:13 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:17 -0800, Ed Fletcher wrote:
> Check the permissions and ownership of the directory it is mounted in
> and of the directories within it (if any). Is it a new drive or does it
> have data already on it? If it's not new, you should ensure that the
> subdirs are owned by USER:USER (or duncan:duncan). You can use 'sudo
> chown USER:USER directory' for this.
it's brand new, I've formatted it ext3.
> If you don't want anyone to have access to this drive, you could instead
> mount it somewhere in your home directory.
It's meant to be shared between two users, so I've got owner:root
group:users users has rwx permissions and I've added us both (and root)
to the users group. But I still can't do anything as a simple user.
:-( it should be so easy. Duncan
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