Hi, I have a back up hard drive I cannot access. When I try to move folders there I get the message ‘access denied’. It is probably a simple permissions problem.I need some help to get permission to access it. Can anyone please guide me here.
Thanking you in advance.
K
Please post the result of the following:
cat /etc/fstab
and as su -
fdisk -l
dave@dhcppc2:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VMC709D-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VMC709D-part1 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VMCCERD-part1 /backup ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-ST3500418AS_9VMC709D-part2 /boot ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
dave@dhcppc2:~>
and the second
dave@dhcppc2:~> su
Password:
dhcppc2:/home/dave #
The second again…sorry
dhcppc2:/home/dave # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006f692
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 60409 485235261 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 60410 60540 1052257+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 60541 60801 2096482+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002f5a0
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 60801 488384001 83 Linux
dhcppc2:/home/dave #
As su - do this
chown dave -R /backup
reboot
Has that helped
You know it did!
Thank you so much for your time. Much appreciated.
You are most welcome
And try to get some documentation about ownership, users, groups and access bits in Unix/Linux. This is important for every file/directory on your system and your problem had nothing to do with the fact that a whole file system was involved.