[64studio-devel] HDD: Write permissions for ordinary user?

[R.Wolff]

Cheers Daniel,
Linux being frustrating is the least you can say when coming from a Win 
ONLY background.
My PC was build on purpose (by myself) for audio work at the time.
So I have 4 HDD's & two optical drives in there. My mobo has an Onboard 
Promise PDC20276 ATA/RAID controller, so each HD can be mounted as 
master to it's own IDE/ATA channel. So things are getting a bit more 
complicated. They're configured in the following way:

IDE 0: 80GB drive master/DVD-RW slave. HD has 4 partitions ->WinXP Pro 
15GB - 64-Studio 10GB - /home partition for 64 studio 20GB - Remaining 
32GB for personal files, manuals, notes, downloads etc.
DVD-RW as slave

IDE 1: 80GB drive for my audio projects (strictly for audio rec. ONLY) & 
a 2GB partition at the end as Linux Swap file.
CD-RW as slave

ATA 0: 20GB drive for my MIDI files, instrument patches/banks (no 
samples), drummapsagain VST manuals, MIDI utilities etc...

ATA 1: 80GB drive for my samples, loops and VSTi data files (encrypted 
soundbanks).

So, as you can see, I'll really need write access to ALL my 
drives/partitions. And since no one else is touching my PC,
I couldn'tcare less about security restrictions.

I had already tried several times to change the owner or group of the 
drives/partitions, but even under the root account it's not possible to 
change. Neither from within nautilus nor did it work with 'chown' 
'chmod'  'chgrp' commands ffrom a terminal.

There's just so much stuff to learn, it's not amusing in any way.
Fortunately I can at least play around with the audio apps in between
those long learning sessions.

I'll have another look at the 'chgrp' commands. And I'll use the Wiki 
insterad of the Deb. manual this time.

Cheers
Raphael ;)



Daniel James schrieb:
> Hi Quentin, hi Raphael,
> 
>> I had to change change the owner group of my secondary HDD to 
>> "audio".   From then on I had realtime full access to that HDD.
> 
> That's one way to do it; another is to set the second hard disc as the 
> /home partition during the install.
> 
> I appreciate the security model can be frustrating for a new user. The 
> distro is configured by default for a multi-user environment, where you 
> don't want to give write access to files outside of /home/username/ to 
> just anyone.
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> Daniel
>