Patch webOS Make USB Partition Writable via SFTP - Revision history

Devnull: /* Possible Issues */

2010-03-28T04:18:26Z

Possible Issues

Hopspitfire: adding patch template header

2009-08-12T04:30:25Z

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Hopspitfire: Make USB Partition Writable via SFTP moved to Patch webOS Make USB Partition Writable via SFTP: webos patch

2009-08-12T04:13:45Z

Make USB Partition Writable via SFTP moved to Patch webOS Make USB Partition Writable via SFTP: webos patch

Atlanta: Make USB Partition writable via SFTP moved to Make USB Partition Writable via SFTP: Page looks better with W capitalized

2009-08-09T20:01:58Z

Make USB Partition writable via SFTP moved to Make USB Partition Writable via SFTP: Page looks better with W capitalized

Atlanta at 19:58, 9 August 2009

2009-08-09T19:58:46Z

Atlanta at 19:55, 9 August 2009

2009-08-09T19:55:42Z

Atlanta at 19:55, 9 August 2009

2009-08-09T19:55:05Z

Atlanta: New page: You can use the USB Drive partition via WIFI as a non-root user by telling fstab to mount it owned by the non-root user's UID. This is useful if you don't want to have to remount the root ...

2009-08-09T19:51:21Z

New page: You can use the USB Drive partition via WIFI as a non-root user by telling fstab to mount it owned by the non-root user's UID. This is useful if you don't want to have to remount the root ...

New page

You can use the USB Drive partition via WIFI as a non-root user by telling fstab to mount it owned by the non-root user's UID. This is useful if you don't want to have to remount the root partition, and if you don't want r/w access enabled for the entire filesystem when just transferring files...

++ Requirements
* Pre with SSH and SFTP installed, and connected to WIFI
* SFTP Client of some sort. (Nautilus, WinSCP, SSHFS, etc)
* You'll have to update your configuration if the IP of your Pre changes

//**Note: If the Pre is on battery, the SSH connection will lost when the display goes to sleep. Do this while the Pre is charging for best results.**//

++ Instructions
1. Login via SSH as the non-root user you created when you enabled [[[adding-the-ipkg-repository | the Optware Package Feed]]].
2. Determine your uid (user id) and gid (group id)
[[code]]
id

Example:
gregnuj@castle:/var/home/gregnuj$ id
uid=1001(gregnuj) gid=1001(gregnuj)
[[/code]]
3. Edit /etc/fstab so /media/internal is mounted owned by your user id (group id recommended but not required)
[[code]]
sudo vi /etc/fstab
[[/code]]
Modify the /media/internal entry as follows: (note: use the values obtained from the id command)
[[code]]
/dev/mapper/store-media /media/internal vfat uid=1001,gid=1001,utf8,shortname=mixed 0 0
[[/code]]
4. Save the file by pressing <ESC>, followed by ":x" (w/o quotes) <ENTER>

5.
Option 1:
Reboot the Pre and you should now be able to read/write to the USB Drive partition (/media/internal) via SFTP using your non-root login.

OR instead of rebooting

Option 2:
[[code]]
cd /media
sudo umount /media/internal
sudo mount /media/internal
[[/code]]

+++ Password-less Login (optional - for Linux or Mac)

1. Login to the Pre via SSH as your non-root user, and execute:
[[code]]
mkdir ~/.ssh
[[/code]]
2. Generate a key pair on your host machine with:
[[code]]
ssh-keygen -t rsa
[[/code]]
3. Copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on the host to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the Pre.
4. Test SSH/SFTP login from the host to the Pre to make sure you aren't asked for a password.

++ Possible Issues

* If the Pre is running on battery, it sleeps frequently, breaking the SFTP connection. This will cause file transfers to fail.

++ Credits
natrixgli for original post.
Atlanta for transferring to new Wiki

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	* If the Pre is running on battery, it sleeps frequently, breaking the SFTP connection. This will cause file transfers to fail.		* If the Pre is running on battery, it sleeps frequently, breaking the SFTP connection. This will cause file transfers to fail.
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		+	Problem: Unable to edit fstab file if system is read-only. Can't set file system to RW unless you are root.
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		+	Solution: After executing the "ID" command and getting your UID and GID number type "sudo -s" then "mount -o remount,rw /". (No quotation marks) After you can proceed to edit the fstab file with your original numbers (which you get BEFORE you switch to root). After mount read-only "mount -o remount,ro /
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		+	Alternative Solution: Open a second terminal window and type "sudo -s" then "mount -o remount,rw /". (No quotation marks) Then you can do this patch on a new window. After you are done change back to read-only "sudo -s" then "mount -o remount,ro /"

	=Credits=		=Credits=

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	You can use the USB Drive partition via WIFI as a non-root user by telling fstab to mount it owned by the non-root user's UID. This is useful if you don't want to have to remount the root partition, and if you don't want r/w access enabled for the entire filesystem when just transferring files...		You can use the USB Drive partition via WIFI as a non-root user by telling fstab to mount it owned by the non-root user's UID. This is useful if you don't want to have to remount the root partition, and if you don't want r/w access enabled for the entire filesystem when just transferring files...

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-+++ Password-less Login (optional - for Linux or Mac)
+=Password-less Login (optional - for Linux or Mac)=
 . Login to the Pre via SSH as your non-root user, and execute:

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 =Credits=
 natrixgli for original post.
 Atlanta for transferring to new Wiki

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 You can use the USB Drive partition via WIFI as a non-root user by telling fstab to mount it owned by the non-root user's UID. This is useful if you don't want to have to remount the root partition, and if you don't want r/w access enabled for the entire filesystem when just transferring files...
-++ Requirements
+=Requirements=
 * Pre with SSH and SFTP installed, and connected to WIFI
 * SFTP Client of some sort. (Nautilus, WinSCP, SSHFS, etc)
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 //**Note: If the Pre is on battery, the SSH connection will lost when the display goes to sleep. Do this while the Pre is charging for best results.**//
-++ Instructions
+=Instructions=
 . Login via SSH as the non-root user you created when you enabled  [[[adding-the-ipkg-repository | the Optware Package Feed]]].
 . Determine your uid (user id) and gid (group id)
-[[code]]
+<pre><nowiki>
 id
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 gregnuj@castle:/var/home/gregnuj$ id
 uid=1001(gregnuj) gid=1001(gregnuj)
-[[/code]]
+</nowiki></pre>
 . Edit /etc/fstab so /media/internal is mounted owned by your user id (group id recommended but not required)
-[[code]]
+<pre><nowiki>
 sudo vi /etc/fstab
-[[/code]]
+</nowiki></pre>
 Modify the /media/internal entry as follows: (note: use the values obtained from the id command)
-[[code]]
+<pre><nowiki>
 /dev/mapper/store-media	/media/internal	vfat	uid=1001,gid=1001,utf8,shortname=mixed	0	0
-[[/code]]
+</nowiki></pre>
 . Save the file by pressing <ESC>, followed by ":x" (w/o quotes) <ENTER>
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 Option 2:
-[[code]]
+<pre><nowiki>
 cd /media
 sudo umount /media/internal
 sudo mount /media/internal
-[[/code]]
+</nowiki></pre>
 +++ Password-less Login (optional - for Linux or Mac)
 . Login to the Pre via SSH as your non-root user, and execute:
-[[code]]
+<pre><nowiki>
 mkdir ~/.ssh
-[[/code]]
+</nowiki></pre>
 . Generate a key pair on your host machine with:
-[[code]]
+<pre><nowiki>
 ssh-keygen -t rsa
-[[/code]]
+</nowiki></pre>
 . Copy ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub on the host to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the Pre.
 . Test SSH/SFTP login from the host to the Pre to make sure you aren't asked for a password.
-++ Possible Issues
+=Possible Issues=
 * If the Pre is running on battery, it sleeps frequently, breaking the SFTP connection. This will cause file transfers to fail.
-++ Credits
+=Credits=
 natrixgli for original post.
 Atlanta for transferring to new Wiki