[opensuse] usb hard drive
I have a usb hard drive and when I use it . It show as root and can not use it in user how can I get it to work ? is it a good ide to run as root all the time or user ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
bill biggs wrote:
I have a usb hard drive and when I use it . It show as root and can not use it in user how can I get it to work ? is it a good ide to run as root all the time or user ?
How is it formatted? I find that only FAT formatted drives are acessable to the users. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
________________________________ Ahh, good point - if it's NTFS, it's probably going to be read-only as well.. Adam Sailer Computer Support Analyst II University of Washington, Bothell asailer@uwb.edu ________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: James Knott [mailto:james.knott@rogers.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 10:09 AM To: SuSE Linux Subject: Re: [opensuse] usb hard drive bill biggs wrote:
I have a usb hard drive and when I use it . It show as root and can not use it in user how can I get it to work ? is it a good ide to run as root all the time or user ?
How is it formatted? I find that only FAT formatted drives are acessable to the users. -- Use OpenOffice.org http://www.openoffice.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
James Knott wrote:
How is it formatted? I find that only FAT formatted drives are acessable to the users.
certainly not ext2/3 if perfectly right jdd -- http://www.dodin.net Lucien Dodin, inventeur http://lucien.dodin.net/index.shtml -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
jdd wrote:
James Knott wrote:
How is it formatted? I find that only FAT formatted drives are acessable to the users.
certainly not ext2/3 if perfectly right
Yes but then you have to make a directory in there that is writeable to the users group. And be sure that the directory where it is mounted is executable by the users group, in other words, that it is accessible. -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
________________________________ So should there be an entry in /etc/fstab ? Adam Sailer Computer Support Analyst II University of Washington, Bothell asailer@uwb.edu ________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: Jos van Kan [mailto:vankan@kabelfoon.nl] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 1:23 PM To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] usb hard drive jdd wrote:
James Knott wrote:
How is it formatted? I find that only FAT formatted drives are acessable to the users.
certainly not ext2/3 if perfectly right
Yes but then you have to make a directory in there that is writeable to the users group. And be sure that the directory where it is mounted is executable by the users group, in other words, that it is accessible. -- Jos van Kan registered Linux user #152704 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
bill biggs wrote:
I have a usb hard drive and when I use it . It show as root and can not use it in user how can I get it to work ? is it a good ide to run as root all the time or user ? Run as user, su to root on the few occasions you need to be root.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.2 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
participants (6)
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Adam Sailer
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bill biggs
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James Knott
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jdd
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Joe Morris (NTM)
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Jos van Kan