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

[Thomas Adams]

Hi Wolf,

Thank you for your help with switching the GRASSDBASE!

Best,
Tom

On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 12:10 AM Wolf Bergenheim <wolf+grass at bergenheim.net>
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!
>
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> * ^.___*
>
> *( ,__// / Wolf Bergenheim*
>
>
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 17:39, Thomas Adams <tea3rd at gmail.com> 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
>>
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