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

[R.Wolff]

They're all Fat32 drives/partitions.
And like I said, I've tried several methods to gain ownership or at 
least write permissions for those drives.
For the moment being, I simply logon as root.

Cheers
Raphael ;)



guerrier schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> what is the format for your HDs?
> 
> If you are trying to write to ntfs, i suggest that you install Fuse
> and ntfs-3g.  Try to find a repo with the latest version of both
> applications.  you can find the latest ntfs-3g here ( deb
> http://www.vobcopy.org/mirror/elive/ elive main efl elive ).
> 
> My other suggest is to use chown to gain owner's access of the HD.
> this page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown) explains how to use it
> and has examples.
> 
> Once you have the proper driver and permission, you can add the drive in 
> fstab.
> 
> guerrier
> 
>>  Message: 5
>> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:59:32 +0000
>> From: Daniel James < daniel at 64studio.com>
>> Subject: Re: [64studio-devel] HDD: Write permissions for ordinary
>>         user?
>> To: Quentin Harley < qharley at wbs.co.za>
>> Cc: 64-Studio <  64studio-devel at 64studio.com>
>> Message-ID: <45E2BD94.4050405 at 64studio.com>
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>>
>> 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
>