Re: [Staffslug] How do I...?

as root: chown -R normaluser:normaluser /media/external where normaluser is your regular login username. Chris. On 02/10/2007, Kevanf1 <kevanf1(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > Another how do I.... :-) > > I have hooked up my Maxtor external drive to the Kubuntu box. It's a > USB drive and has mounted etc. Drive designation is sda1 and is > currently mounted under /media/external. Checking as root through the > shell I can see all the files. I ran the ls command to get that. But > I can't access them as a normal user. At this point I ran ls -l to > check the permissions. Ok, it appears that root alone has read > properties: > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-09-20 18:20 cdrom -> cdrom0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-09-20 18:20 cdrom0 > dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 2007-10-01 20:27 external > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-09-20 18:20 floppy -> floppy0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-09-20 18:20 floppy0 > > I have tried <chmod 777 external> this was of course while in the > /media directory as /external is within /media. > > I got this: > > chmod: changing permissions of `external': Read-only file system > root@kev-kubuntu-PC:/media# ls -l > total 16 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2007-09-20 18:20 cdrom -> cdrom0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-09-20 18:20 cdrom0 > dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 2007-10-01 20:27 external > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-09-20 18:20 floppy -> floppy0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-09-20 18:20 floppy0 > > Any ideas of where I have gone wrong? Before anybody says it yes, I > am very rusty. > > By the way, the line I added in fstab is as follows: > > /dev/sda1 /media/external ntfs rw,user,noauto 0 0 > -- > ============================================== > > Kevan Farmer > Linux user #373362 > Staffordshire > > _______________________________________________ > Staffslug mailing list > Staffslug(a)staffslug.org.uk > http://www.staffslug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/staffslug >