filesystem questions

[Peter Eis]

AA wrote:

>My question is, how can I mount the ext3
>partition in linux to allow for browsing to that drive
>through nautilus and copy/paste/cut etc data to and
>from the drive as a normal (not root) user?  I can
>mount the partition with
> 
>sudo mount /dev/hdb2 /media/store/ -t ext3
>  
>
Add this line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb2       /media/store           ext3    noauto,user        0       2
noauto will prevent the patition to be mountes at startup and user
allows a normal user to mount the partition.
Then you can mount the partition just by doing 'mount /media/store'

If you want to access the partition from windows, you should have a look
at http://www.fs-driver.org/
It allows read/write access to ext2/ext3 partitions.

Regards,
Peter