Ubuntu second hard drive was Windows partition

[Mark Haney]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Doug Pollard wrote:
>> Excuse me I am not making any sense this morning.  This is a second hard 
>> drive that auto mounts but has no permissions.  I need info on how to 
>> give permissions.
>>                                                                    
>> Thanks Doug
>>
>>   
>     A hard drive does not have permissions. It has partitions that may 
> have owners and passwords depending on the type. A Windows partition is 
> not password anything :-)
> 
> 
> Karl
> 
> 

I don't think either of you are making sense.

Doug, if you are automounting a second drive, it's possible the drive is 
  mounted Read only.  An 'ls -l' output of the mounted drive would be 
/really/ helpful here.

There are a couple of reasons this could be.

One, the drive is now unformatted, meaning no partitions or filesystems 
on it.  That of course would mean it wouldn't mount at all, but it's 
worth mentioning.

Two, /if/ the drive has windows on it (I couldn't find the rest of this 
thread so I don't have a clue if the subject line is accurate or not) 
then it's probably an NTFS partition.  I don't know if Ubuntu ships with 
ntfs-3g by default, but I know the ntfs driver I still use is Read-only. 
  That would explain the fact that it mounts but there are no 
'permissions' on it.  It's only readable.

If ntfs-3g does come default in ubuntu, you can probably mount the 
partition as RW by editing /etc/fstab.  Can you post that for us as well?

However, I don't recommend mounting NTFS as RW even with ntfs-3g.  MS is 
notorious for altering NTFS in tiny ways even across Service Packs and 
makes life interesting when trying to write from linux.

If the drive doesn't have anything critical on it, I would just fdisk it 
and format it with a linux filesystem (ext3 is a good one for general use).

Please, post the additional info and let us look at it to help you out.


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