I installed ubuntu 11.10. During installation, I created the default user (named MS). I can browse/edit and do anything in my hard disk(I have 7 partitions).
Today I created a new user named (ABC), this user cannot access my internal hard disk partitions. When I click on each partition the hard disk icon suddenly disappear from the left side device panel(inside home folder there is things like devices, bookmarks etc). So I checked /media directory and it says "folder contents cannot be displayed".
cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=9fa65e41-5c75-4636-a3b5-961739b245c2 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 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: 0x000b2307
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 2048 39997439 19997696 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 39999488 81946623 20973568 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 81947565 123877214 20964825 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 123887614 976773119 426442753 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 123887616 333602815 104857600 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 333604864 543320063 104857600 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 543322112 753037311 104857600 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 753039360 976773119 111866880 83 Linux
Information about the users
id ms
uid=1000(ms) gid=1000(ms) groups=1000(ms),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),118(admin),124(sambashare)
id abc
uid=1002(abc) gid=1002(abc) groups=1002(abc),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),46(plugdev),116(lpadmin),118(admin),124(sambashare)
Also I got the following things while mounting the partition under the user abc.
Dec 21 23:04:15 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 64.093923] EXT4-fs (sda8): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Dec 21 23:04:15 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 64.095606] EXT4-fs (sda8): recovery complete
Dec 21 23:04:15 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 64.095611] EXT4-fs (sda8): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Dec 21 23:04:16 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 65.619595] EXT4-fs (sda7): recovery complete
Dec 21 23:04:16 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 65.619602] EXT4-fs (sda7): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Dec 21 23:04:17 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 66.250818] EXT4-fs (sda6): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended
Dec 21 23:04:17 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 66.251195] EXT4-fs (sda6): recovery complete
Dec 21 23:04:17 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 66.251362] EXT4-fs (sda6): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Dec 21 23:04:18 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 67.080910] EXT4-fs (sda5): recovery complete
Dec 21 23:04:18 ms-Lenovo-G550 kernel: [ 67.080916] EXT4-fs (sda5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
Here are the result of /media after mounting partitions.
abc@ms-Lenovo-G550:~$ ls -al /media/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2011-12-29 07:34 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2011-12-11 22:30 ..
drwxrw---- 6 ms ms 4096 2011-11-19 15:45 Films
drwx------ 17 ms ms 4096 2011-12-22 21:59 Misc
dr-x------ 9 ms ms 4096 2011-12-20 23:18 Ms
drwx------ 6 ms ms 4096 2011-12-28 18:50 Softs
drwx------ 6 ms ms 4096 2011-11-17 03:06 Song
Also different partitions are used to arrange things in an easy manner.
Thanks, Vipin MS
sudo ls -al /media
from the user abc? I suspect a permission problem, but it's strange because the user abc seems to be sudoer. Not connected to your problem, but are you sure that you need so many partitions? Isn't that quite annoying when one runs out of free space?ls
it seems to work fine? Is the user in the sudoer list? I suppose you need to enter your password to mount partitions? (you can test it withsudo echo foobar
)