Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions
2009/4/28 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Neil Greenwood wrote: Thanks mac. I was trying to avoid having to run a command every time I plug the drive in though. I don't have to run it every time. Once assigned to the labelled drive, the permissions are persistent. I'm looking at one of mine now, that I just plugged in. It has mounted as if owned by the logged-in user on this machine. (That's why I think you do have to 'sudo chown -R' the drive to the current user - and it will then be owned by $USER). The folder permissions are 755; files look to be 644, unless otherwise specified. Ah! Maybe I should have tried it, rather than just expecting it to fail next time I plugged it in. Thanks for the feedback. I'll give it a go when I've finished upgrading... (It's very useful to give the drive a label, so that it's always referred to by the same name, and you aren't messing about with different /dev names.) I already do this, at least with most of my removable drives. Mine (several of them) just plug in and work, irrespective of who's the logged-in user. Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions
Neil Greenwood wrote: I have a similar issue with my ext3 formatted USB hard disk. When hotplugged, it's owned by root and I cannot create files or directories as my normal user. What do I need to change so that all users can create files/directories in the root when it's plugged in and automounted? Here's what I do: (Can't remember if I change the ownership with chown first. SIAS!) Mount the drive. Then chmod -R +w /media/drivelabel (And if you need to give it a label: To relabel do sudo e2label device label e.g. sudo e2label /dev/sdg1 MyUSB HTH mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions
2009/4/28 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Neil Greenwood wrote: I have a similar issue with my ext3 formatted USB hard disk. When hotplugged, it's owned by root and I cannot create files or directories as my normal user. What do I need to change so that all users can create files/directories in the root when it's plugged in and automounted? Here's what I do: (Can't remember if I change the ownership with chown first. SIAS!) Mount the drive. Then chmod -R +w /media/drivelabel (And if you need to give it a label: To relabel do sudo e2label device label e.g. sudo e2label /dev/sdg1 MyUSB HTH mac Thanks mac. I was trying to avoid having to run a command every time I plug the drive in though. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions
Neil Greenwood wrote: Thanks mac. I was trying to avoid having to run a command every time I plug the drive in though. I don't have to run it every time. Once assigned to the labelled drive, the permissions are persistent. I'm looking at one of mine now, that I just plugged in. It has mounted as if owned by the logged-in user on this machine. (That's why I think you do have to 'sudo chown -R' the drive to the current user - and it will then be owned by $USER). The folder permissions are 755; files look to be 644, unless otherwise specified. (It's very useful to give the drive a label, so that it's always referred to by the same name, and you aren't messing about with different /dev names.) Mine (several of them) just plug in and work, irrespective of who's the logged-in user. HTH Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions
Stephen Garton wrote: I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32... Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to my user? AFAIK you can't set permissions on FAT32 mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:57 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote: Afternoon All, I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32. All of the folders in this drive (automounts to /media/storage) as listed as being owned by root. When I try to change this (I've tried sudo chown -R and sudo nautilus) I get permission denied errors. Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to my user? Thanks, Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32 drives as if you own all the files. e.g. sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000 HTH -Matt Daubney signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions
2009/4/27 Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:57 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote: Afternoon All, I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32. All of the folders in this drive (automounts to /media/storage) as listed as being owned by root. When I try to change this (I've tried sudo chown -R and sudo nautilus) I get permission denied errors. Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to my user? Thanks, Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32 drives as if you own all the files. e.g. sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000 HTH -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Cheers Matt (and Chris), I'll edit fstab to add these options see if that helps. Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions
Matthew Daubney wrote: On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:28 +0100, mac wrote: Matthew Daubney wrote: You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32 drives as if you own all the files. e.g. sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000 That's useful to know. I guess, though, you couldn't preserve other ownerships / permissions if you tried to rsync to a FAT32 drive? mac Unfortunately not, as those things are stored by the file system. You can set the default permissions for things though, but I can't remember the option for that off the top of my head. -Matt Daubney I usually use a umask=0022 option in the particular entry in /etc/fstab - that works for me. Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
