Hi Māris, Thank you for your help and suggestions… but, how, within the GUI do I set GISDBASE… I have looked but cannot find how to do this…
Regards, Tom On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 1:33 AM Maris Nartiss <[email protected]> wrote: > otrd., 2022. g. 30. aug., plkst. 07:10 — lietotājs Wolf Bergenheim > (<[email protected]>) rakstīja: > > > > Hi Tom, > > > > 1) To point GRASS to the GISDBASE on the external drive, simply start > GRASS once with > > > > grass /external_ntfs_mount/some_location/mapset > > > > Meaning that you give as argument the path to a mapset that you want to > use in the GISDBASE on the external btfs drive. GRASS will remember this > then is subsequent runs so you only will need to do it once. > > It is possible to switch GISDBASE from GUI after starting GRASS in > different GISDBASE. > > > 2) For the external NTFS drive and permissions. How do you mount it? It > does seem to me that the user mapping is incorrect if everything is mapped > to the root user. Either you can use the options to mount it as your user > (at which point it will work on linux, but I don't know what windows user > they will be mapped to (probably the administrator). Alternatively you can > provide a mapping file which maps your linux username to a windows user id > as shown for example here: > > https://linux.die.net/man/8/mount.ntfs-3g > > NTFS is a tricky beast as mount on Linux will just set a single owner > for all files. If nothing is specified, it will be the user mounting > disk (=root). To get NTFS permissions right, you should pass -o > uid=XX,gid=XX parameters to the mount command where XX is your UID and > GID. If disk is automounted, you should look into automounter > documentation how to get things right (fstab entry or enabling user > mount, ...). > > Good luck, > Māris. > -- Thomas E Adams, III 207 Chowning Place Blacksburg, VA 24060 [email protected] (personal) [email protected] (work) 1 (513) 739-9512 (cell)
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