I've added a new disk with a single ext4 partition and I want to use this as a shared multimedia drive /dev/sdd1
for all users and occasional samba users. It seems to work ok while I am logged in as root, but I can't seem to add rwx permissions for others. I've used nautilus under gksu to change the properties (permissions tab) for the Media Store folder in media/nick but it seems to make no difference on permissions for other users.
Do I have to log into each of those other users, mount the drive with the super user permissions, then change the mount permissions for each users mount point folder? That seems a lot of work to do for each user, especially if it is not permanent. I guess there are lines I should be adding to fstab....
..but to be honest, as a newbie, I've got lost and would appreciate your pointers on a simple how-to guide.
My mount output is below... probably in a mess...
/dev/sdc1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755)
none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880)
none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/nick/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=nick)
/dev/sde1 on /media/nick/Elements type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdc2 on /media/gill/XPMedia type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/nick/MultiMedia type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda1 on /media/nick/System type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/gill/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=gill)
/dev/sdd1 on /media/nick/Media Store type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2)
And here is my 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>
# / was on /dev/sdd1 during installation
UUID=bafb49a7-48da-4ec0-9ce2-639d831591d9 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdd5 during installation
UUID=58d2c95e-afaf-4adb-9c46-ae0f05af056c none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
There is no floppy in the system anymore, so I guess I could delete that without problems.
Thanks,
Nick