[wellylug] HDA permissions

[Daniel Pittman]

Steve Macdonald <dakmani1 at yahoo.co.nz> writes:

> I set up ubuntu on a laptop with 4 partitions, one I can view but dont
> have permission to write too it, how do I change it so I have full
> permission on that drive?
>
> Mount Point: /media/hda3
> File System: ext3
> Mount options: rw data=ordered

ext3 is a "real" Unix filesystem: it has permissions on all objects on
the standard Unix modem.

What you almost certainly need to do is to alter the permissions --
which default to allowing read to anyone but write only to root -- so
that your standard UID has access as well.

For details on that see chmod(1), though I imagine you already know how
to achieve that.

If that doesn't work then post the result of 'ls -la /mnt/my/disk' along
with the error message you get when you try to write data.

Regards,
        Daniel
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