How to allow all users to write to disk?

rado3105 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 293

Hi I changed fstab to mount partition /dev/hda4 to /media/disk, like this:

Sadako · Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 9:51 am Post subject:

It's not a matter of allowing all others write to the disk or partition (which you should never do), it's a matter of allowing all users write to the mounted filesystem.

`chmod a+rwX /media/disk/` while it's mounted should give you what you're after.
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rado3105 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 293

chmod a+rwX /media/disk/

this command applies only to one folder, the rights of subfolders and files in subfolders stays unchanged. How to changed privilleges of all folder, subfolder and files, that are on that disk?

rado3105 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 293

I also executed:
sudo chown r-c:r-c /media/disk
sudo chmod 770 /media/disk

r-c is the name of user, and didnt helped

Then I executed chmod a+rwX /media/disk/xxx
xxx is subfolder, now I can write to that subfolder, but I must execute that command to all subfolders

button · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 65 Location: Croatia

Well, why not make the computer do the dirty work for you? After all, that is what computers are for

rado3105 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 293

button · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 65 Location: Croatia

please post an error messages, if any, and an output of 'ls -l /media/disk'

rado3105 · Apprentice Joined: 14 Jul 2007 Posts: 293

There is no message, just I cant write to all subfolders, if I want to write I have to all subfolder chmod.
ls -l /media/disk

button · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 65 Location: Croatia

Well, that is strange. Where are those subfolders you're trying to write to? Are you sure you mounted your partition? Please post the output of 'mount'.