Hi Wolf, Thank you for your help with switching the GRASSDBASE!
Best, Tom On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:10 AM Wolf Bergenheim <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > 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 > > For ease of use in the long term, I'd probably go with the default mapping > file. Hope this helps! > > *-- * > * ^.___* > > *( ,__// / Wolf Bergenheim* > > > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 17:39, Thomas Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I recently started using GRASS 8.1 on an Ubuntu 22.04 laptop. Although I >> have a 2TB solid state internal drive, I want to keep all my GRASS files >> on an external NTFS drive. Somehow all of the files have root ownership, >> including all my GRASS files copied on to it from my Mac. This is causing >> all sorts of problems, including not being able to access any of the data >> within GRASS due to permissions. After installing GRASS 8.1 on my Ubuntu >> computer, my default GRASS database is >> >> GISDBASE: /home/teaiii/grassdata >> >> how can I either: >> >> (1) point to the grass data on my external drive as the (working) default >> GISDBASE or >> (2) access the data from the default GISDBASE -- permissions don't seem >> to allow this even though all files are universally rw >> >> Best, >> Tom >> >> _______________________________________________ >> grass-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >> > -- 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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