Hello Ernst-Magne, Your story isn't very clear to me. The same could be true for others in this list. Let's see if we can clarify a few things. On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 06:57:23PM +0100, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > Hi, I've just moved my system from a 40G disk to 80G, and need some help > to set the correct user rights. Did you remove the old disk or is it still present in your computer? > I'm not sure about what the right "debian way" is so here is what I did. > The new disk is hdd > > Then with fdisk I created 1 extended disk, then two logical partition on > about the same size, then mkfs.ext3 /dev/hddX on both. > > Now part info from fdisk give me this: > Disk /dev/hdd: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes You say the new 80 GB disk is hdd, yet fdisk says here that hdd is 40 GB. What's going on? > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hdd1 1 77545 39082648+ 5 Extended > /dev/hdd5 1 35000 17639937 83 Linux > /dev/hdd6 35001 77545 21442648+ 83 Linux > > df -h gives this output: > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hdd5 17G 33M 16G 1% /disk2/hdd5 > /dev/hdd5 17G 33M 16G 1% /disk2/hdd6 That's 17+17=34 GB. What happened to the rest of the disk? Are you saving some space for later? That's fine. If not, then things seem to have gone wrong here and you may want to retry partitioning. Try the program cfdisk instead of fdisk. It's more userfriendly. 'parted' can probably also be used if you have it installed. > Let's say, /dev/hdd5 is for users to play with (that's me), how do I set > the right permission there? > OR > If I created a folder on one of the partition, what is the correct rights > to set so users is able to play around? I meen full access. One partition needs to be mounted on the root directory, '/'. Or is that already the case for a partition on your other disk? The partition that you want to play with can be mounted on another folder, let's say /mnt/play. Create that directory first. Then as root do 'mount /dev/hdd5 /mnt/play' or something like that. You may want to edit /etc/fstab for that. See 'man fstab' if you don't know how to do that. > I could ofcause just set chown username:groupname /dev/hddx or /folder and > then chmod (0)777 or something, but is that the right way of doing it? Leave /dev/hddx as it is. Users don't usually need rights on those device files. Do you want users to have unlimited access to the whole partition? Or just one folder on that partition? Let's say the last. And let's say you have mounted that partition on /mnt/play like mentioned above. Then as root just do 'mkdir /mnt/play/folder'. > Can I create a group and add members there? You could make a group 'users' and add users there. Then as root chgrp users /mnt/play/folder and chmod 0777 /mnt/play/folder As the folder is still owned by root you may need to change the ownership to a normal user. Actually now I think about it, this whole group thing should not be necessary when you do the chmod command. > Well....I postponed this mail and did some further googleling and test > before I sent it, and this is definitively not the way it should be > done:( .If I create a folder on hdd5, it also appear on hdd6, same if I > delete... That seems *very* strange to me. I don't see how you managed to do that. :) HTH somewhat... -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: keyserver.net ID 0x1735C5C2 "Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning." - Winston Churchill
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