[vox-tech] mounting an external drive

[Jennifer Stickel]

Thanks! That worked- it was ext3 and now I can write to it!

Jen

Mike Simons wrote:

>On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:06:39PM -0800, Jennifer Stickel wrote:
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>>I have an external drive setup through a firewire on a Sony laptop.  I 
>>think I have one of the partitions on the drive setup at ext3....but how 
>>can I make sure that it it?
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>run:  tune2fs -l /dev/sda7 | grep features
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>Change /dev/hda1 to be whatever partition you want to check.
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>output should look something:
>===
>Filesystem features:      has_journal filetype needs_recovery sparse_super
>===
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>If you have "has_journal" it's ext3.
>If you don't it's ext2.
>If you get an error, it's the wrong partition.
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>Another option is:
>cat /etc/mounts
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>  Which will tell you what filesystem driver currently is currently
>loaded, for each mountpoint.  if you don't see ext3 it is not mounted as
>ext3.
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>>Also how can I mount it so that any user and not just root can write to it?
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>mount the partition, then run: 
>  chmod 1777 /LinuxExtra
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>>I have tried modifying my fstab file 
>>a few times this is what I have now (I can mount it as ext2 or ext3).  I 
>>can mount the drive as a user now but still can't write to it.
>>
>>   /dev/sda7               /LinuxExtra             ext2   
>>   users,rw,exec        0 0
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>>I would like to be able to mount this on boot and this fstab does that 
>>except that I can't write to it.  Thanks
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>  Change ext2 to ext3, umount it, mount it again, run the chmod from 
>above, and you should be able to write.  If that fails send another
>message and include the output from the commands you ran, and
>  ls -ld /LinuxExtra
>
>    TTFN,
>      Mike
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