[SOLVED] fstab; new ext4 partition is mounted as read-only

[alquimista]

Hi,

On Mint 12, I had a 300 Gb NTFS partition that I reformated to ext4. Mint 12 detects it yet its set as read-only; copule of questions:
bkid yields the id for the new partition as /dev/sdb1: UUID="61fd5c92-340f-421c-8c5f-92d91080ea6d" TYPE="ext4" .

1- How can I label it to a more decent name, like "Data" ? for directory link references.
2- How can I change fstab so the new partition is mounted with permissions to "rw" ?

When I had NTFS, Mint loaded for "rw", now that is ext4, its mounted as read-only

[altair4]

1- How can I label it to a more decent name, like "Data" ? for directory link references.

Create a mount point:

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sudo mkdir /Data

OR

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sudo mkdir /media/Data

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sudo mkdir /mnt/Data

Note: Any mount point in your home directory or in /media will produce a mount icon on the desktop. If you create a mount point anywhere else it will not.

2- How can I change fstab so the new partition is mounted with permissions to "rw" ?

It already is writable. What it isn't is writable to you.

[] If it's currently mounted unmount it.

[]Add the following line to fstab:

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UUID=61fd5c92-340f-421c-8c5f-92d91080ea6d /Data ext4 defaults,noatime 0 2

[] Then issue the following command to mount the partition with the new mount point:

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sudo mount -a

That will mount the partition with owner = root and with permissions of 755 - writable to root, readable to everyone else.

[] Once it's mounted take possession of the mounted partition. For example:

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sudo chown altair /Data

[alquimista]

Thank you altair4 !