-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Patrik, You're having a problem with file permissions, but it's pretty easy to solve this. I'm not sure how familiar you are with how linux deals with permissions, but I'll try to make this brief. You can find much better explanations online (the link dave howorth posted for you is a good place to start.) this bit:
total 26 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-07-24 18:41 datatank -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 88 2007-07-25 02:30 .hal-mtab --wS--Sr-x 1 root root 0 2007-07-22 07:43 .hal-mtab-lock dr-xr-xr-x 8 patrikh root 6144 2007-01-03 09:39 openSUSE10.2-IL022007 drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2007-07-24 02:27 sementara drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-23 05:31 sementara2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-11-28 04:02 xmms_audio_cd suseonthelap:/ # whoami
^^^^^^^^^^ means r-read w-write x-execute for owner (in this case root, as it says next to the chart), then group (also root,) then other. the two partitions in questions are owned by user root and group root, but are only writable by the user. i'm not sure how'd you set up /etc/fstab to make them writable by a different user/group, but it's easy enough to change the ownership or permissions outside manually. if you are the only one on your system, the simplest thing to do would be (at a command prompt as root) chown patrickh datatank which would set you as the owner user of the file. if you have multiple users on your system and aren't too worried about security you could instead change the permissions with chmod 777 datatank which would set the permissions to read, write, execute for everyone on the system. if you just want to swap data back and forth between the partitions, you might be best off using chown or chmod on specific directories rather than making the whole thing completely accessible. for instance, you could just chown patrickh /media/datatank/home/patrickh (assuming you're using the same logins, etc. etc.) which would allow your patrickh user on suse to access fully the home directories on the other partitions, but would require you to login as root to go in and change the important config files on those other partitions. Derek -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGp28Sg39m4F98CH4RAgnXAJ4tSz4mPIbp7spWg0HZ2ZUZGxbC3QCfSO1e WzDsCjc9N5jXhVBN5/KhYwE= =Zn6G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org