I can mount hda1 but i dont have Permissions!!

Forum: HD Install
Topic: I can mount hda1 but i dont have Permissions!!
started by: brad31337

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Posted by brad31337 on July 19 2005,12:36

Im booting from a cd and i managed to mount both my usb (sda1) and Hard drive (hda1). However when i use Emelfm i dont have permissions to access them in mnt. Can someone please tell me what im doing wrong (im new to linux) i tried

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chmod a+rwx /mnt/hda1

but i still couldnt read it from Emelfm. And when i tried to play my music files with xMMs it just skips through the list (i think its cos of the permissions someone please help!

Thanks in advance
Brad

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Posted by SuperLou on July 19 2005,14:20

Did you mount them using the automounter on the right-side app bar?  Open up a terminal and see if you are logged in as DSL or root, it will be the first half of the prompt.

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Posted by mikshaw on July 19 2005,14:31

1) You can't change permissions on a mountpoint that is mounted (just in case that's what you tried).
2) < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=6862 >

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Posted by fpd on July 20 2005,02:24

List the /mnt directory.  There should be an /hda1 and an /sda1 which showed up during boot.

If so, try this:
yourbox$ sudo -u root mount -w /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
yourbox$ sudo -u root mount -w /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

If not, or if you get an error: "/mnt/xda1 does not exist"...

yourbox$ sudo -u root mkdir /mnt/hda1
yourbox$ sudo -u root mkdir /mnt/sda1

... then try the first commands.

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Posted by fpd on July 20 2005,02:27

Eh?  I am registerd!

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Posted by brad31337 on July 20 2005,04:04

Cheers, i got it now, i did:
sudo mount /mnt/hda1
and it worked fine
Thanks

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