making directory to link to hdd

this is how i did it in the past on ubuntu 10.04 now using ububtu 16.04

i have tried to make a directory to link to a hdb1 so i have tried the following

Code:

mkdir /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp

and i get the following responce

Code:

mkdir: cannot create directory ‘/var/www/clients/clientX/webX/ftp’: Permission denied

so then i decided to use an existing directory private

Code:

mkdir /var/www/clients/client1/web1/private/ftp

then i ran the following to find uudi

Code:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

i then edit /etc/fstab something like

Code:

UUID=1d4125f0-f1eb-4a6c-b666-dd2fe4845d2a /var/www/clients/clientX/webX/private/ftp ext4 defaults 1 2

then i mounted the directory

Code:

mount sdb1 /var/www/clients/clientX/webX/private/ftp

then i ran

Code:

df

and the output is

Code:

/dev/sdb1                         976759804  118132 976641672   1% /var/www/clients/clientX/webX/private/ftp

so everything seems top be correct the directory is 777 when i log into the ftp i can not access the link to the drive i get
Response: 550 Can't change directory to ftp: Permission denied

i also tried directory webdav with the same outcome. i do not want to make a folder inside of the web directory i need it to be outside if the web directory..

thanks for any help

kwick

 

output of ls -la /var/www/clients/client1/web1/private

total 12
drwx--x--- 3 web1 client1 4096 Feb 7 17:05 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Feb 6 23:24 ..
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Mar 26 21:52 ftp

 

ok so i tried you way and could make the directory. thank you for the help

chattr -i /var/www/clients/client1/web1
mkdir /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp
chattr +i /var/www/clients/client1/web1

this is the output of
ls -la /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp
total 8
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Mar 26 21:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mar 27 14:49 ..
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Mar 26 21:52 $RECYCLE.BIN
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Mar 26 21:52 System Volume Information

what i noticed is when the directory ftp is not mounted the permissions are 777, once i mount the drive they change to 500 and can not be changed..


thank you for the help


kwick

 

no change still 500

chown web1:client1 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp chown: changing ownership of '/var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp': Read-only file system
chmod 751 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp
chmod: changing permissions of '/var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp': Read-only file system

ls -la /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp
total 8
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Mar 26 21:52 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Mar 27 14:49 ..
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Mar 26 21:52 $RECYCLE.BIN
dr-x------ 1 root root 0 Mar 26 21:52 System Volume Information

 

issue resolved.. i was unaware that the drive was ntfs and not ext4..
so to fix this i did the following

fdisk -l
fdisk /dev/sdb
d ...to delete the current partition
n ...to create a new partition
p ...to specify it as a PRIMARY partition
1 ...to set it as the 1ST primary partition
w ...to write the changes.
w ...quit fdisk
then i did the following
fdisk -l to check the drive
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1
y ... to overwrite ntfs
mount /dev/sdb1 var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp

i then set the permissions like stated above
chown web1:client1 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp
chmod 757 /var/www/clients/client1/web1/ftp

then everything worked

thank you foe everything


kwick