sasfmj 0 Posted February 8, 2005 hi I belive hav have just mounted my unused 30gig partion i use in windows and i beleve have mounted it as hda5 mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 it dosent say anything after just goes to another command line. when i look at the properties on the /mnt/hda5 folder it says its about 30gig so i figure ive done it right but what i would like to know is how do i copy files etc to this folder because when i copy and paste to the folder it just coms up with an error saying:- Access denied Could not write to /mnt/hda5/(filename) can anyone help??? thanks Matthew Share this post Link to post
Jimxugle 0 Posted February 8, 2005 You Need to Set The File Permissions... Go into the /mnt/ Folder, right click on hda5 and then there should be somthing about permissions there. Thats in FC3... but if you're using Gentoo or mandrake or smothing... try googleing it. Cheers, Jim Share this post Link to post
danleff 0 Posted February 8, 2005 The easy way out in Fedora...go to the start menu-->System tools-->file Manager-Superuser mode. This will give you direct rights to mount and transfer any files from any partition, as long as it is mounted. Remember, you mounted the drive a root, so it needs root privileges to access the drive. Share this post Link to post
matttah 0 Posted February 8, 2005 You can assing your hard drive to be mountable by different groups in the fstab...for example: /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ext3 defaults,users 0 0 That line if added to your fstab will mount the /dev/hda5 drive automatically on boot up. It is configured for an ext3 system. It allows all "users" which is a group, to access the drive freely. (I am at school at the moment so not sure if that is perfect syntax, but should get yuo going!) Daum Share this post Link to post
