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Can not access slave drive

jho
jho Posts: 2
in Installation

I'm unable to access the slave drive on my desktop when I run Ubuntu 12.04. My desktop machine has 2 x 80Gig HDD. I ran Gparted and formatted and cleaned the drives before installing 12.04. However I can see it on my desktop but when I try and copy files to it it tells me I don't have permission. I'm new to Linux and want to learn.

Kind regards

Jho

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  • mfillpot
    mfillpot Posts: 2,177
    Each new partition defaults to giving only root write access to the contents unless you have set the fstab file to mount the file partition with user access that can fix your problem. However the simplest approach would be to use sudo to create a new directory within the partition and set the permissions to 777 which is read,write,executable for all users.
  • mfillpot
    mfillpot Posts: 2,177
    I am sorry that I had not responded earler, I don't check the forum often.

    Izzy, I am subscribed to get e-mails for all of your posts, if you think I can help call me out in a post and I will respond within a day. Thanks for trying to help everyone and I hope you learn a lot.
  • jho
    jho Posts: 2
    Gee, thanks guys. Didn't think I would get a reply. However, how do I - "Each new partition defaults to giving only root write access to the contents unless you have set the fstab file to mount the file partition with user access that can fix your problem. However the simplest approach would be to use sudo to create a new directory within the partition and set the permissions to 777 which is read,write,executable for all users." - Mfillpot
  • mfillpot
    mfillpot Posts: 2,177
    You can find some guidance in the posts at

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1604251

    Feel free to search http://help.ubuntu.com for any issues you have, they have some of the best user documentation.

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