[LEDunk2007]

Have:

WRT610N V2 running DD-WRT v24-sp2 (04/23/10) mega - build 14311

Working install of Optware using Frater's script on an EXT3 partition on a 2.5" external WD 1TB hard disk.

Need:

Way to get the Transmission daemon to save torrent to to /opt versus /mnt. Permission denied error comes up when trying to save data to the /opt partition; e.g. opt/Downloads/Torrents. My partitions look like this:

root@Magny-Cours:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 5.7M 5.7M 0 100% /
/dev/root 5.7M 5.7M 0 100% /
/dev/discs/disc0/part2
479G 339M 473G 1% /opt
/dev/sda1 125M 86M 39M 69% /mnt

Also, Transmission is now returning this error:

root@Magny-Cours:~# service transmission start
Start service "transmission" (/opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission)
service: Start service: "transmission" (/opt/etc/init.d/S90transmission)
Starting Torrent client: transmission-daemon
sudo: /opt/etc/sudoers is owned by uid 34, should be 0
sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting
renice: 34: getpriority: No such process

To me this looks like some sort of permission error but I am not sharp enough to know the proper commands to deal with the issue.

Any help is appreciated.

[PaulP]

LEDunk2007

You need update optware:

[LEDunk2007]

No dice. Problem remains the same.

[snake98]

run e2fscheck

e2fsck -p /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
on the partition, do on every boot, on my optware and main storage drive.

give permission to everyone on the directory.
chmod 776 $directory_to_change

[LEDunk2007]

Output from the e2fsck check. I altered the command so that it looked at the target directory.

Output:

root@Magny-Cours:~# e2fsck -p /dev/discs/disc0/part2
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 is mounted.

WARNING!!! Running e2fsck on a mounted filesystem may cause
SEVERE filesystem damage.

Do you really want to continue (y/n)? yes


EXT3Black: recovering journal
e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to re-open EXT3Black
e2fsck: io manager magic bad!
root@Magny-Cours:~#

Something tells me that this command might be for an EXT2 filesystem. Is this the case?

The chmod command as typed there with the directory that I am trying to create to download to with Transmission as given in the example has failed. Is the 776 some sort of parameter? I know there is the 0.0, root.root, or root:root syntax but I am unsure if this will work.

[frater]

[LEDunk2007]

My apologies for the long hiatus. Life called in the most terrible way; I will spare the details.

Sudoers error solved. Ago tibi gratias, Frater.

Anyone have any input on why I cannot get sufficient privileges to write to the /opt directory to save my torrents in Transmission?

The following error is returned from the web-GUI:

Permission denied: /opt/torrents/...

[Masterman]

Post either a screen shot of your USB GUI mounted info, or a CLI output of the command mount

I believe something is wrong with disk mount order from your output:

[LEDunk2007]

Perhaps it is time to reformat the drive, this time with the partitions recommended in the formatting tutorial, although it was not my original intention.

From my understanding that information was dated but I must be mistaken.

If there is any other particular way to format the drives outside what is said in the tutorial now would be the time to voice your suggestions.

EDIT: The attachment below is from today's reformat attempt. The file permissions error still exists even with the new resized /opt partition.

[frater]

If you have a big disk you could format it this way:

256 MB SWAP
1 GB ext3 mount to /opt
the rest ext3 and mount to /mnt

[PaulP]

[LEDunk2007]

Why exactly is it impossible for any other program to write data to the /opt directory then? This makes no sense unless the directory is write protected by the operating system in a way similar to Windows.

[frater]

Aren't you using optware?
It's in /opt/etc/init.d/S10swap

/opt/sbin/swapon <device>

Not all firmwares have it enabled...

[frater]

[LEDunk2007]

Okay I just got done with the format of the drive. Currently there are four partitions on the drive.

The first partition is for Optware, the next one is for swap, and the last two are for data. They are spaced (in order) for 100GB, 50GB, 390GB, and 390GB respectively. The 50GB partition is formatted in Linux swap.

Optware installation went smoothly on partition one and it seems that it is mounted correctly.

Now, what are the commands needed to mount the other three partitions?

Lastly, is there some sort of automount script that needs altered so that all four of the partitions are mounted correctly on each reboot?

I know these common queries are not welcome sometimes but the tutorials are not concise.

Output from the Web GUI/Services/USB Section:

--- /dev/discs/disc0/disc
Block device, size 930.9 GiB (999501594624 bytes)
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 97.66 GiB (104864062464 bytes, 204812622 sectors from 63)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext3 file system
Volume name "BlackOpt"
UUID 6368746F-2074-616B-6F65-207575696400 (NCS)
Volume size 97.66 GiB (104864062464 bytes, 102406311 blocks of 1 KiB)
Partition 2: 48.83 GiB (52436160000 bytes, 102414375 sectors from 204812685)
Type 0x82 (Linux swap / Solaris)
Linux swap, version 2, subversion 1, 4 KiB pages, little-endian
Swap size 48.83 GiB (52436148224 bytes, 12801794 pages of 4 KiB)
Partition 3: 390.6 GiB (419431703040 bytes, 819202545 sectors from 307227060)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext3 file system
Volume name "EXT3BD1D"
UUID 6368746F-2074-616B-6F65-207575696400 (NCS)
Volume size 390.6 GiB (419430401024 bytes, 409600001 blocks of 1 KiB)
Partition 4: 393.7 GiB (422762941440 bytes, 825708870 sectors from 1126429605)
Type 0x83 (Linux)
Ext3 file system
Volume name "EXT3BD2D"
UUID 6368746F-2074-616B-6F65-207575696400 (NCS)
Volume size 393.7 GiB (422762941440 bytes, 412854435 blocks of 1 KiB)
Status: Mounted on /opt

Output from the df -h and ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 commands in the command shell:

root@Magny-Cours:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 5.7M 5.7M 0 100% /
/dev/root 5.7M 5.7M 0 100% /
/dev/discs/disc0/part1
90G 210M 85G 1% /opt

root@Magny-Cours:~# ls -l /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0
total 0
brw------- 1 root root 8, 0 Jan 1 1970 disc
brw------- 1 root root 8, 1 Jan 1 1970 part1
brw------- 1 root root 8, 2 Jan 1 1970 part2
brw------- 1 root root 8, 3 Jan 1 1970 part3
brw------- 1 root root 8, 4 Jan 1 1970 part4