desktop. After booting, I promptly split it up into 2 equal partitions and added them into fstab with PySDM (pysdm.sourceforge.net/).
After rebooting my drives were automounted, as expected, but owned by root and read-only on my user account, not expected. PySDM set the options as "defaults" so I changed both of them to "rw,user,auto" after a lengthy Ubuntu Forums search session. Now this time on reboot, they're still owned by root and read-only, and I can no longer unmount them in Nautilus (was able to freely do this).
It's been a very long time since I've had more than one hard drive in my box and I've never experienced this problem before so I'm at a loss.
Here is my current fstab file. /dev/sbd1 and /dev/sbd2 are the 500GB partitions.
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' 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).
#
#
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=265f30dd-8515-4f72-ae0f-06c5a51f0021 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=6736b0ae-44e9-4aa8-ab10-0a9bf51e7ad4 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 ext3 rw,user,auto 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /media/sdb2 ext3 rw,user,auto 0 0
And here's screencaps of the partitions in detail in GParted:
/dev/sdb1: imgur.com/ru4eV.png
/dev/sdb2: imgur.com/LqM2v.png
Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
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I'm not sure what you intended to do with adding the "user" option to the mount option. This just lets non-root users mount or unmount it, it doesn't change the permissions on the filesystem itself. Since it's formatted ext3, the ability to mount it is unrelated to the ability to write to it.
If you want to be able to write to it, then after it's mounted, as root, do:
sudo chown -R username:group /media/sdb{1,2}
If you want to have it mounted at boot, there's no reason to allow mounting or umount it as non-root from nautilus, especially if these are fixed drives.
If you want to be able to write to it, then after it's mounted, as root, do:
sudo chown -R username:group /media/sdb{1,2}
If you want to have it mounted at boot, there's no reason to allow mounting or umount it as non-root from nautilus, especially if these are fixed drives.
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