PP won't boot after FSTAB entry for NTFS Drive

[moonman]

It shouldn't pickup the permissions unless you create 1tb directory first and then issue recursive chmod using the -R modifier. Also 755 allows execute, not write.

[rino]

Thanks moonman ... I am not very familiar with linux ... I just try to find my way Can you give me exact chmod command that I should run when I mkdir /media, and then another one for mkdir /1tb? I'll run those and try to mount the drive again ... thanks in advance.

[moonman]

you really don't need any special permissions on /media, but if you like it so:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'mkdir /media/1tb
chmod -R 766 /media')

alternatively you can use chmod +w instead of octal. (+w = add writeable)

[rino]

I tried that ... still didn't work

[moonman]

don't know why it isn't working for you. Just created an ntfs flash drive, chmodded 766 /mnt, mounted manually with everything default on /mnt. Changed user from root and copied a file to the flash drive and everything went smooth.

These are the options that it mounted with:
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)

[rino]

Hi moonman,
Can you please give me exact commands (step-by-step) that you used to mkdir the directory, Chmod, and then mount with options (including fuseblk - I am not sure what it is), and I'll use the same to do it on my side ... hope it'll work for me

Thanks again for all your help, and sorry for all the trouble I am causing to you

[rino]

Ok ... I am giving up on NTFS

Can anyone please give me exact commands that I need to run on my Pogoplug with alARM that will allow me to format my HDD as ext3? I'd really appreciate it After that I'll mount it with uDevil.

Hope that'll resolve the permission issues ...

If there is a better solution to mount ext3 drives (compared to uDevil), please let me know about that as well i.e. fstab, etc?

Thanks in advance.

[grayman4hire]

@rino, take a look at my signature (SAMBA section).

If you're using ext3, you'll probably want to uninstall udevil and use fstab. Otherwise you can't mount a swapfile (unless you do it via a systemd service)

[rino]

Thanks grayman4hire ... tonight when I go home, I am planning to re-install alARM and fresh install everything from scratch ... your guide will come in very handy I'll post back my experience ...

[rino]

Finally, I am able to write to my HDD ext3 rocks! Thanks grayman4hire ... your tutorial works ... except, I didn't upgrade the kernel 'coz when I upgraded it, I wasn't able to boot up my PPv2. So, I skipped that part and did the rest, and it is working great now ... Thanks again. I am back in business