[GRASS-user] Change gisdbase in GRASS 8.x

[Thomas Adams]

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 <maris.gis at gmail.com> wrote:

> otrd., 2022. g. 30. aug., plkst. 07:10 — lietotājs Wolf Bergenheim
> (<wolf+grass at bergenheim.net>) 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.
>


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