Hard drive permissions on Xubuntu

[Chukchi Husky]

On a computer running Xubuntu I have a second hard drive (in the media folder it's called HDD 2), but only I can access it. How do I make it so anyone can access it?

 

[GVBN]

Open /etc/fstab with a text editor and set hard drive options to umask=022 (755 permissions)

 

[Chukchi Husky]

This is what came up when I opened etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=1f30ebe5-7168-44f8-9f4b-0532173f3ff4 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=75ae6f80-d6cb-4bde-aef0-f5d1e3385928 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

What am I supposed to change?

 

[Ankka]

I think it might help to also just give 755 permissions to the /media/whatever folder the disk gets mounted to, I'm not sure. You can do this either on the command line or by startin thunar as root ($ sudo thunar on the command line).

It usually helps, but I have a feeling it's not the "real way" to handle it.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Thunar didn't work.

I tried the way described on the Ubuntu documentation and that didn't work.

 

[GVBN]

This is what came up when I opened etc/fstab

What am I supposed to change?

None of those look like a secondary hard drive. Post your /etc/mtab

 

[Chukchi Husky]

Here is the etc/mtab.

/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/HDD\0402 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,usefree 0 0

 

[GVBN]

Copy the last line to /etc/fstab and change umask=077 to umask=022

Like this

/dev/sdb2 /media/HDD\0402 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=022,usefree 0 0

 

[Chukchi Husky]

When I try to save it a message comes up saying "Can't open file to write".

 

[GVBN]

Open it as root. Sudo command in Ubuntu

 

[Chukchi Husky]

How do I open it in the terminal?

 

[GVBN]

sudo nano /etc/fstab

 

[Chukchi Husky]

How do I save the changes?

 

[GVBN]

Ctrl+x and answer (y)es when it asks you to save the file

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I saved it. Now whenever I try to center the hard drive it says "Cannot mount volume: You are not privileged to mount the volume 'HDD 2'" and "Unable to mount 'HDD 2': Unknown errpr". When I go into the media folder it's disappeared.

 

[GVBN]

Did you reboot? The drive should be mounted during startup. If it doesn't then add auto to options

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I restarted the computer. The permissions is now read only for everyone (I can still read and write).

 

[Pentium]

If you want it to be writable for everyone, remove the umask part, so that the line looks like

/dev/sdb2 /media/HDD\0402 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,usefree 0 0

And then reboot.