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I have two hard disks. I installed Arch (KDE if it matters) and I couldn't start gparted to format the other hard drive (which has ext4 partitions formated with live distro now).
Right now I can open both partitions. They both have lost+found folders, but I can't do anything there. The "Create new" is grey. Right click - Properties it says it is mounted on /media/ 8f650d05-3d09-4885-8e8d-452dd32270f8. The other one too. Permissions tab is completely grey too.
The owner is root. How can I get complete access to those two partitions.
Last edited by aneris (2012-02-11 19:36:11)
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Can you use these partitions as root?
Can you post some more info, like the output of 'fdisk -l', 'mount' etc.?
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Well, when I try to open either one of them, it asks for my user (not root) password. I type it and then I see what is in there, but nothing else I can do about it.
As for fdisk -l :
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000492d8
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2048 153597464 76797708+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 153597465 312576704 79489620 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 163.9 GB, 163928604672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19929 cylinders, total 320173056 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004a20a
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 63 208844 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 208845 738989 265072+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 738990 51954209 25607610 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 51954210 320159384 134102587+ 83 Linux
The hard driver in question is sdb.
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Are you able to access the disk correctly as root? What are the current permissions set to the mountpoint (/media/ 8f650d05-3d09-4885-8e8d-452dd32270f8 if I understand correctly)? Try setting the desired permissions with chmod perhaps.
Burninate!
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Try to access the disk from the commandline as root. How did you mount that disk? Can you give us the output of 'mount'?
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Are you able to access the disk correctly as root? What are the current permissions set to the mountpoint (/media/ 8f650d05-3d09-4885-8e8d-452dd32270f8 if I understand correctly)? Try setting the desired permissions with chmod perhaps.
How do I check the first?
The current permissions for both are: Owner (which is root) can view and modify, group and other can view content.
And how do I set the permissions?
And fourth, sorry if I am asking dumb questions.
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Wow. You people are great. Thank you.
Now I can access everything. Found everything I need in the first link.
Let's see for the sake of people like me: first I typed su in the terminal, then password. Then I typed cd and pasted the full name of a partition and then chmod u(or g, o or a)=rwx (for read, write and execute permissions) and then I pasted the whole name of partition.
Once again, thank you very much. That was really fast.
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