Do not have premission to write to internal media?

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#1

I have a 190gig data partition on my hard drive and it mounted just fine (gave it my password and it appeared in nautilus) how ever I have to be root to send files to it… Why is this and how can I change it so my default user can also write files to it as normal?

Thanks,
~Jeff

#2

Who is the owner of the mount point? What are the access bits there?

#3

The owner of the mount is who ever the default owner is when I select the drive in “computer”. What are “access bits”?

~Jeff

#4

You might be interested in reading this: SDB:Basics of partitions, filesystems, mount points - openSUSE

If you do not know where your partitions are mounted do:

mount

it shows what partitions are mounted where and with what options.

Access bits are the bits that belonging to a directory/file and that say who may do what with them. The who part of this is user,group, others (or world), and the what part is read, write, execute/search. You see them when you do ls -l command of a file. E.g.

henk@boven:~> ls -ld /home/wij
drwxrwxr-x 10 henk wij 4096 jun 21 18:07 /home/wij
henk@boven:~>

(the d is added because /home/wij is a directory, wthout the d it would show all the files inside the directory).
I showed this from my system because /home/wij happens to be a mount point. It shows that it is owned by the user *henk *and that the group *wij *is also connected to it. The drwxrwxrwx part shows:

  1. the d that it is a directory
  2. the first rwx that the owner (*henk *in this case) may read. write and search in the directory;
  3. the second rwx that users that are member of group *wij *may also read/write/search;
  4. the third r-x that other users may read and search, but not write.
    This is a very important concept in Unix/Linux.

When e.g.the mountpoint is something like:

drwxrwx--- 2 root root .... /your/mount/point

only root can do anything inside the directory, irrespective if the contents is there because of it being a mount point or not.