Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-20 Thread Bill Broadley
chris wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 17:53 -0800, Bill Broadley wrote: > >> Er, there is recovery, it's called, er, umm, chkdsk or something?u are I >> think >> there's a fsck.vfat as well. > >chkdsk is only good for saving readable text, if it is .exe you want > back then you are mostly scr

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-20 Thread chris
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 17:53 -0800, Bill Broadley wrote: > Er, there is recovery, it's called, er, umm, chkdsk or something?u are I think > there's a fsck.vfat as well. chkdsk is only good for saving readable text, if it is .exe you want back then you are mostly screwed. journal roll back will

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-20 Thread Bill Broadley
Scott Miller wrote: > Hey yeah FAT32 is not journaling either, so if there is every a power > blip or cut of connection there is zero recovery from the file system > (if that is a concern). Er, there is recovery, it's called, er, umm, chkdsk or something? I think there's a fsck.vfat as well. Spe

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-20 Thread Scott Miller
x-tech-boun...@lists.lugod.org] On Behalf Of Chanoch (Ken) Bloom > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 10:03 AM > To: lugod's technical discussion forum > Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive > > > That's an assumption the operating system makes because most USB drives

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-20 Thread ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon)
ject: Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive That's an assumption the operating system makes because most USB drives are thumb drives and the like, single-user disks that come and go. You can change that, though. Create a rule to identify the device uniquely in udev and to assign it a perme

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-20 Thread Matthew Holland
To add to what Ken said, if you're using udev, you should be able to get a stable device identifier by looking in /dev/disk/by-id. Usually the name there is informative enough to just figure it directly. Recent Fedora and Ubuntu distros have this facility. You can then use /dev/disk/by-id/ i

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-20 Thread Chanoch (Ken) Bloom
On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 11:49 -0500, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote: > Hi, > Thank you very much for all your answers. After testing some of your > suggestions I "discovered" that It is after all a USB drive and as > root I have to umount it before logging out so the other users can > mount it a

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-20 Thread ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon)
2009 7:59 PM To: lugod's technical discussion forum Subject: Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive Did you make sure of the permissions on the mounting point? On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:31 PM, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote: > Hi, > I have a brand new 1TB USB hard drive formatted by fd

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-19 Thread Jeffrey Nonken
Did you make sure of the permissions on the mounting point? On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:31 PM, ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote: > Hi, > I have a brand new 1TB USB hard drive formatted by fdisk to FAT32. > My system can see it mount it and umount it. > However, no matter what I do I cannot change the

Re: [vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-19 Thread Alex Mandel
ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon) wrote: > Hi, > I have a brand new 1TB USB hard drive formatted by fdisk to FAT32. > My system can see it mount it and umount it. > However, no matter what I do I cannot change the permissions or the ownership > nothing! > The root can write but nobody else can. > I wa

[vox-tech] Help with USB Hard drive

2009-02-19 Thread ALLO (Alfredo Lopez De Leon)
Hi, I have a brand new 1TB USB hard drive formatted by fdisk to FAT32. My system can see it mount it and umount it. However, no matter what I do I cannot change the permissions or the ownership nothing! The root can write but nobody else can. I want this drive to be totally accessible to all the