[SOLVED] I cannot make mounted ext4 partition writeable.

Question

I want to make /dev/sdc2 (mounted on /mnt/SteamLinux) writeable, so I could install Steam games on it.
/etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# /dev/sdb3
UUID=7cfc361a-47e1-45b9-8429-054d31302402 / ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 1
# /dev/sdb4
UUID=04b8a615-8738-4d5c-b4de-16a0f92ade4d /home ext4 rw,relatime,data=ordered 0 2
# /dev/sdc2
UUID=1501a760-5c07-4279-a2c2-9695e08a6cdd /mnt/SteamLinux ext4 defaults 0 0
# NTFS drives
/dev/sda1 /mnt/Blue ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/Black ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
fsck /dev/sdc2 result:
fsck from util-linux 2.22.2
e2fsck 1.42.7 (21-Jan-2013)
fsck.ext4: Permission denied while trying to open /dev/sdc2
You must have r/w access to the filesystem or be root
What should I do to make it writeable without root access?
Last edited by White girl (2013-03-31 00:10:21)

Answer 1

Mr.Elendig wrote:uhm, just run fsck as root? And for access as a normal user: chown and chmod
Ran fsck as root, it went fine. Remounted /dev/sdc2, then ran
sudo chmod -R +w /dev/sdc2
I assume it's a command to make this partition writeable for regular user. Steam still threw me as readonly.
Got it working by using /mnt/SteamLinux instead of /dev/sdc2.
Steam issue is still not resolved, but it's irrelevant to the thread now... (Steam refuses to download anything to this partition, it returns me as 0MB available space)
Last edited by White girl (2013-03-30 14:16:23)