[Discuss] permissions on partitions

[David Lee]

Thanks peter and lionel!

With a bit of reading and trying, I finally fixed the problem.
I used chown -R user /data for each user.

In retrospect, I probably made it a little harder than it needed to be. 
I could have just created them to my home directory and have one less 
partition to worry about.
But then, Linux is a test of endurance...not strength.

David


pw wrote:
> check out
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> /usr/share/hal/fdi/90defaultpolicy/storage-policy.fdi
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> Peter
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> David Lee wrote:
>> Good evening
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>> Yesterday, I formated my hard drive, removed win xp and re-installed 
>> Linux on the whole drive.
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>> When I set up the partitions, I used swap, /, /home and /data. 
>> Another drive was put in as hdb and /backup.
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>> Normally, when I had windows, I used /mnt for c, e, and d (other drive).
>> Should I have used mnt for /data and /backup?
>> When I go to the /data directory (partition?) to make some 
>> directories ( photos, music, and videos),
>> I get an "access denied to /data/photo". I have tried reading and 
>> trying chmod and chown, but to no avail.
>> This is using Konqueror. If I su and and use command line, it's fine. 
>> How do I change permissions on a more permanent basis for all users?
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>> I could re-install and use /mnt/data, but I was hoping to learn why 
>> this was happening.
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>> Thanks for any help
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>> David
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