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

Vram lamsokvr at xprt.net
Wed Feb 15 07:26:01 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 14:19 +0800, Senectus . 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?
> 
> --

home$su
home# chmod 1777 /media/160gig

HTH

Vram








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