New drive mounted with EXT3, but can't write to it?

[Darryl Clarke]

On 15/02/06, Senectus . <senectus at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've just added an extra drive to my machine, I did an fdisk and made
> 1 large partition, then gave it the "ID" of "83" (Linux).
> then I did an mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
> and then I mounted it to
> mount /dev/sdb1 /media/160gig
>
> but now only root can write to that drive.. ?
> If I do a "mount" I get:
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/160gig type ext3 (rw)
>
> What step did I miss?

sudo chmod a+rw /media/160gig



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