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heiowge · Last edited by heiowge on Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:02 pm; edited 1 time in total

I've added a 2nd hard disc. Both the new one and the original are seagate 500gb drives.

It appears in dolphin, but I can't seem to do anything with it. I wanted to back up my files, but the paste option is greyed out.

Any suggestions?
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el chapulín · Joined: Fri Sep 07, 2012 2:13 pm Posts: 50

Looks like a permissions problem. By default *nix system don't just mount a hard disk drive assuming that all users should be able to write to it. Ensure that you've set the mount options correctly in /etc/fstab

heiowge · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:51 pm Post subject:

Thanks. Now how do I fix it? Laughing

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towy71 · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:13 pm Post subject:

use the "disk utility"
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nelz · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:43 pm Post subject:

You don't use mount options to set permissions on *nix filesystems, the filesystem ccontains its own ownership details, and the root of it is owned by the user that created it, which has to be root. On a single user system, all you need to do is moutn the drive then do

heiowge · Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:04 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the info. I logged on here to say I'd fixed it, but thanks anyway.

I needed to do a reinstall, and I found I could set custom mount points, so I set it to:

/media/seconddrive

Then I opened it with admin rights, added my user and set permissions through Nautilus.
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Nuke · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:24 am Post subject:

I am just being picky, but /media is not meant to be a mount point for hard drives. It is meant for the ad hoc mounting of the wide variety of portable media such as CD's, Floppies, external HDs, USB sticks, cameras, digital picture frames, etc.

/mnt is meant for the more fixed things such as other PCs on the network and any internal HDs which are not usually mounted (such as for archiving), and to mount internal HDs temporarily when using a recovery distro.

For a permanently mounted internal HD, it should just be part of the main tree, not through /media or /mnt any more that your first HD is. Unlike a Windows environment, there is no need to be normally conscious of it being a second HD. I have three internal HDs and mount them as something like /home/nuke/data1, ~/data2 etc. [actually it is more complex than that as each HD has four partitions, so I also have mount points like ~/archive, ~/copy_of_my_laptop_home, /windows_XP and /windows_games]
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Ram · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:40 am Post subject:

if you use /media to mount the drive it is then visible to all users on their desktops without doing anything else.
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nelz · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 12:29 pm Post subject:

Ram · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 2:09 pm Post subject:

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nelz · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 10:49 pm Post subject:

Ram · Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2012 11:19 pm Post subject: