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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

[SOLVED] Can't access external HDD, which is mounted from fstab

I have an external HDD, which I want to mount statically. Therefore I created an fstab entry:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


UUID=2a24e6d6-d54f-4bb1-8724-68bfc052843e /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
UUID=429e0e2e-5291-4cd8-93d2-0ba1b46386c4 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=d515da77-e57f-4c7a-841f-5e2a6cabcfd6 / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1

UUID=471A-2217 /mnt/small_external vfat users,rw,dmask=077,fmask=177,auto,shortname=lower,flush 0 0

It's the last entry you can see there. I got the values from here:

$ blkid 
/dev/sda1: UUID="d515da77-e57f-4c7a-841f-5e2a6cabcfd6" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sda2: TYPE="swap" UUID="429e0e2e-5291-4cd8-93d2-0ba1b46386c4" 
/dev/sda3: UUID="2a24e6d6-d54f-4bb1-8724-68bfc052843e" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3" 
/dev/sdb1: UUID="471A-2217" TYPE="vfat"

Now, first of all this external hard drive is not mounted automatically on boot, although 'auto' has been set as an option. Next, if I issue a 'sudo mount -a' and then try to access the external, permission is denied:

$ cd /mnt/small_external/
bash: cd: /mnt/small_external/: Permission denied

Ideas?

EDIT: Solution see edit in last post.

Last edited by Stalafin (2008-11-11 01:19:20)

pyther

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Re: [SOLVED] Can't access external HDD, which is mounted from fstab

Are you able to access it as root?
Are are the permissions on /mnt/small_external/ ?

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Stalafin

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From: Berlin, Germany

Registered: 2007-10-26

Posts: 617

Re: [SOLVED] Can't access external HDD, which is mounted from fstab

Indeed, I can access the hard drive as root.

I just realized, if I mount the hard drive without root rights, I can actually access it as my user:

$ mount /mnt/small_external

But as mount -a only works with root rights, I am not able to access it... But as this was the whole idea of putting that entry into fstab something seems to be wrong....

Is there something wrong with the entry?

EDIT: Solved by adding the uid of my user to fstab options.

Last edited by Stalafin (2008-11-11 01:18:53)