SueD Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I'd really like to change the permissions of sdb1, sdb5 and sdb6. Right now, they're set as root but it's a pita if I want to, say download an image into sdb5, I have to download somewhere I've got permission to first, change to root then move it. I've tried chown without success.Here's my fstab... [sue@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab# # /etc/fstab: static file system information## <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0/dev/sda10 /home ext3 defaults 0 1/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0/dev/sda9 / ext3 defaults 0 1/dev/sdb1 /home/sue/Music vfat defaults 0 0/dev/sdb5 /home/sue/Images vfat defaults 0 0/dev/sdb6 /home/sue/Other vfat defaults 0 0What do I have to do in order to change things? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I know you said you tried chown but chmod may fix the issue: # chmod -R xxx /home/sue/Music and do this for the Images and Other folderI would either use 755 for -rwxr-xr-x (allows everyone to read/execute and only allows owner to write) or use 777 for -rwxrwxrwx (full read/write/execute for all users).Also, you may want to look here: http://www.zzee.com/solutions/unix-permissions.shtml and here http://www.zzee.com/solutions/chmod-help.shtmlBasically chown allows to change owner of files but chmod actually changes the permissions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Thanks for the reads and I'll give that a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Nope, it didn't work. BTW, this is in Arch.I had the same issue in Mandriva then Bruno said that because it was FAT partition, there's no real ownership. However, in MDV, both Images and Other are set as sue:sue while Music remained root:root. I don't understand why the difference. :(Oh, and those reads? Pfffffft, way over my head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 You don't change permissions for a partition on a hard drive, Sue. You actually change permissions for the directory into which you mount the partitions. For a long time I used to mount my Archives partition in /media/vtel57_archives. It was a pain in the posterior till Bruno enlightened me. Now I mount all my storage and backup partitions right inside my /home/vtel57 directory. With the proper permissions set on the sub-directories and the proper fstab entries, it's no muss - no fuss from now on when trying to access them as regular user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 I'm not sure I'm understanding you Eric. I can access them, no problem. The issue is manipulation. I have to go through hoops to get images or music from /home to where I actually want them on sdb. AFAIK, they're already mounted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Sue, With the partitions NOT mounted, change the mount sub-directories as so: $ chown -R sue /home/sue/<mount sub-directories>$ chgrp -R users /home/sue/<mount sub-directories>$ chmod -R 744 /home/sue/<mount sub-directories> sdb1, 5, and 6 are all FAT partitions, so make you fstab look like this: /dev/sdb1 /home/sue/Music vfat defaults,gid=users,uid=sue 0 2/dev/sdb5 /home/sue/Images vfat defaults,gid=users,uid=sue 0 2/dev/sdb6 /home/sue/Other vfat defaults,gid=users,uid=sue 0 2Remount your partitions now...# mount /dev/sdb1mount /dev/sdb5mount /dev/sdb6 They should all allow "sue" user access without any problems. Users (group) and others can only Read, no w or x.Easy-peasy. Josh was headed in the right direction. You just needed a bit of extra info. Have fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueD Posted February 1, 2010 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 Thanks Eric! I just tried it with Music and it worked. :)I'm off to do the others now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted February 1, 2010 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Have FUN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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