Linux - booting from "live cd", can't access HDD

JimboJangles

JimboJangles

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I have set up a copy of Ubuntu to boot from a flash drive. It's very convenient compared to a live cd because I can keep it in my pocket, and it has a persistent mode that keeps my settings and i have the option to install a tiny bit of software. All of the files it uses are straight off of a ubuntu livecd (patched)**

My Problem: When I boot from the drive into persistent mode, I can't seem to access my hard drive. When I use "$ sudo fdisk -l" then I see each partition of my hard drive listed (/dev/sda1, etc.) but my hard drive doesn't appear to be something I can access along with everything else that shows up on the desktop.

I am a bit of a noob with linux, and I suppose there is some simple command I don't know about to fix this, but I'm really just a bit lost.
Any help?



P.S, if you'd like to give it a try, here's a great tutorial:
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-usb-bar

**apparently you need a patched image to get persistent mode to function (download)
http://88.191.31.14/ubuntuFeistyPatched/
 
still no replies? I really could use the help... and I'm pretty sure it's a simple question for anyone who knows how to use linux.
help?
 
Well, it's NTFS, so I know I wouldn't be able to modify it. But I can't seem to figure out how read files from it either, which I can usually do with just a livecd. It's at least being recognized to some degree, because it's one of the drives listed by "fdisk", but I can't figure out how to browse the folders on it.
 
Sweet, that worked great! I got the NTFS partition mounted once I figured out the syntax of the command. I didn't know that linux had a built in manual in the command terminal.
i used "$ sudo mount -t ntfs /dev/sda5 [location]" to mount it.
If I have another partition I'd like to mount, what would I use for the filetype instead of ntfs when fdisk shows it as being "W95 Ext'd (LBA)"?
 
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More trouble... when I try to open the folder where I mounted the drive, it says
The folder contents could not be displayed.
You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "D".
I tried typing sudo chmod 755 /media/D (/media/D is where I mounted /dev/sda5) but that doesn't seem to help. How can I get rid of this permission problem?
 
JimboJangles said:
More trouble... when I try to open the folder where I mounted the drive, it says
The folder contents could not be displayed.
You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "D".
I tried typing sudo chmod 755 /media/D (/media/D is where I mounted /dev/sda5) but that doesn't seem to help. How can I get rid of this permission problem?
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It is hard to say, the -t flag in mount refers to file system type and while you may be able to force mount an NTFS partition it is not totally native supported. If you google search FUSE or NTFS 3G or ntfs.prog you will see the open source packages used to mount with r-w-x on NTFS partitions.

You may also not have ownership of the volume, you may need to also look into the chown command
 
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