Internal Harddrive permission problems :(! (please help) [SOLVED??]

MattSmith · 2009-04-03 07:36:11

This has been giving me a headache! After messing around with installing bin32-wine from the AUR on my 64 bit system (i don't know if it's related, but a good amount of dependencies were dragged with it) I can no longer obtain write support no matter what i try (editing fstab, chown, chmod...)

for now I am able to write by: sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /media/Share -o rw,users,auto

which works, but I would like to use the pcmanfm way (HAL?) because it is much easier.

Interesting things that may be related to this issue:

There are no problems mounting or unmount my external hard drive (ntfs-3g) with pcmanfm

After mounting using the pcmanfm way, I cannot unmount my Share drive with out restarting FAM which then crashes pcman, after I start pcmanfm up again I am then able to unmount.

There are no problems unmount when I manually mount my drive unless pcman is "looking" at the drive when I unmount.

included bin32-wine deps:

bin32-wine-1.1.18-1 lib32-mesa-7.2-1 lib32-libxt-1.0.5-1 lib32-libsm-1.1.0-1.1 lib32-libice-1.0.5-1 lib32-e2fsprogs-1.41.4-1 lib32-gcc-libs-4.3.3-1 lib32-libxxf86vm-1.0.2-1
lib32-libxslt-1.1.24-2 lib32-libxrender-0.9.4-1 lib32-libxml2-2.7.3-1 lib32-libxdamage-1.1.1-1 lib32-libxfixes-4.0.3-1 lib32-libjpeg-6b-6 lib32-fontconfig-2.6.0-2 lib32-expat-2.0.1-2
lib32-freetype2-2.3.9-1 lib32-zlib-1.2.3.3-3 lib32-alsa-lib-1.0.19-1

- again install lib32-wine may be unrelated, but before I installed wine I was able to mount and unmount just fine with pcman.

Any suggestions would be helpful as I just spent the last 3-4 hours reading through various forums, and I'm to frustrated to think of anything right now

EDIT: Also I have done the HAL fixes outlined on the HAL wiki a few months ago to fix a *similar* problem

Last edited by MattSmith (2009-04-04 17:13:37)

MattSmith · 2009-04-03 11:09:06

Also, it would be preferable to keep wine, so that i can say good by to windows forever.

kgas · 2009-04-03 12:16:20

Have you tried to access your hard drive with root permission or using sudo pcmanfm?

MattSmith · 2009-04-03 20:45:49

yes, this works fine. but I don't want to have to be root just to create a folder on my hard drive

R00KIE · 2009-04-03 22:48:53

Did you try this http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#PCManFM_trick ?

Last edited by R00KIE (2009-04-03 22:50:49)

MattSmith · 2009-04-04 01:47:52

I just tried it with adding this:

mount_options=uid=1000;gid=100;fmask=0664;dmask=0775;locale=;exec

which should allow a good amount of privileges, then i un mounted and re mounted my partition, and still the permissions are the same.

MattSmith · 2009-04-04 06:49:13

Any other ideas as to why, I can't even as root change permissions?! what's up with that? shouldn't root be aloud to do anything!?!?!

MattSmith · 2009-04-04 14:27:54

eh, so being really frustrated, I decided to just delete my windows partition, and move everything from share drive to the ext4 partition, delete share, add on to my new partition, and wah lah! 150 gigs more space! no windows! and chown works!

Thanks everyone for their time and ideas.

R00KIE · 2009-04-04 15:12:20

MattSmith wrote:

I just tried it with adding this:
mount_options=uid=1000;gid=100;fmask=0664;dmask=0775;locale=;exec
which should allow a good amount of privileges, then i un mounted and re mounted my partition, and still the permissions are the same.

Mind you that the masks are the complement of what you want (if I'm not wrong), so if you want the permissions to be 660 in the masks you should put 117 so your fmask would be 113 and dmask would be 002 (if thinking rwx is bit-bit-bit and if I didn't get the binary wrong ^^; ).

Last edited by R00KIE (2009-04-04 15:14:07)

MattSmith · 2009-04-04 16:20:14

eek, I need to work on my binary... octinary?... anyway thanks for the help, should I marked solved if I just worked around my problem?

R00KIE · 2009-04-04 20:26:52

If you got it working as you wanted yes, do mark it as solved. Don't forget to say what solved the problem for you, if any of the posts here or something else you found on the internet so other users with the same problem can try the same solution.

MattSmith · 2009-04-04 20:44:26

lol well I didn't technically get it solved, I do have it working how I want though. I know I has something to do with the ntfs-3g driver and not hal. The way i troubleshooted neglected hal, fam, pcmanfm as the culprit. So by process of elimination it had something to do with the ntfs-3g driver, or perhaps a little of everything. I got around this by booting live distro of gparted and moving my information around (taking windows of my computer in the proccess (finally!)) So now the partition that was ntfs is now ext4 and wah lah, everything works as i desire! Problem not solved, problem avoided.

bwh1969 · 2009-04-05 21:12:36

I read this hoping I could get help with this. It is like someone went out of their way to disable ntfs-3g mounting under hal. I still cannot get it to work using all of the bags of tricks listed in the HAL archwiki. The ntfs-3g linking worked well with an older version of ntfs-3g, but not not with two of the more recent versions.

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Internal Harddrive permission problems :(! (please help) [SOLVED??]

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