Accessing Second Hard Disk

[Rich Johnson]

On Saturday 09 September 2006 18:04, Larry wrote:
> I have a second hard disk that I want to use only for data. I can mount
> it and see it on the desktop. I used type EXT2.
>
> When I try to save something to it I am told that I don't have the
> permissions to do that. I looked at the properties of the disk and see
> that the owner is root.
>
> I tried to use chmod to change the properties, but I guess that I am not
> doing it correctly because the I still cannot save anything.
>
> Please tell me what I am doing wrong and point me in the right
> direction.
>
> Thanks.

sudo chown -R username:username /directory/to/drive

However, it needs to be setup with read/write access, so if you set it up the 
way your other drives are in /etc/fstab that will automount it for you for 
all to write to.
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