[QCLUG] I broke it

[Mark Riedesel]

On Feb 17, 2008 10:21 AM, Robert Jones <robert@rm-jones.com> wrote:
> Good Morning Mark,  Yes, I used the device node.  I found instructions
> on using the UUID but I couldn't figure out how to use it.  It continued
> to come up with an error code.  What would be the exact code to use in
> my fstab that would give me full user access to an external USB NTFS (or
> FAT32) drive.  I understand how to find the UUID.  If I use "defaults"
> than it seems it will go to "root" since that is the default for Ubuntu,
> or so I read.  What I used before was the same code that I had used for
> my internal drives.  I have the notes and such downstairs but I think it
> was something like "/dev/media/???   users ..."
>

Determine your regular user's userid (UID), you can do this using this command:

echo $UID

It should print out a number, more than likely it's 1000. Every user
on the system gets an ID, root is 0.

Then something like this should work for your fstab:
UUID=ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS   /media/my_lil_removable_disk   ntfs-3g
uid=YourUID,rw,noauto  0  0

> I never thought about looking to see what directories used up all the
> space.  Windows (spit spit) doesn't do that as far as I know.  I needed
> to start over so I can learn anyway.  I have already partitioned R2-D2's
> drive in half and am ready to install Kubuntu as soon as I get "Tiger"
> setup.  I figure this way I won't have to go through about 2 days
> setting R2-D2 up again when I kick the Penguin out in a week or two :-)
> .  It seems like that is the normal life span for a Penguin in my house
> :-) .  I'll probably have a baby Penguin living here in the next three
> or four days.  I do have a question about that.  I usually install
> Ubuntu and then add Kubuntu.  The reason I do it this way is to get the
> ability to log in as "root".  There are a number of things I just don't
> know how to do from a command line and the GUI makes things easier.  I
> don't think you can set up a "root" log-in from Kubuntu.  Do you know of
> any way to do that?
>
I've gotten used to using sudo so I don't bother setting a password
for the root user, or just `sudo su` to switch to root. But if you
want the root account to have a password, you can set one for root
using:

sudo passwd root

Does Ubuntu have some weird graphical app for setting the root password?

> Enough with the questions.  I have to "Now, back on the horse!"

Giddyup!

> Have a Great Day
> Bob Jones