Change Permissions on a new hard drive to allow

mtyoung tuxman at knology.net
Tue Jan 9 03:13:44 UTC 2007


I recently added a new hard drive (/dev/sdb1)to a dual boot system. The 
new drive works fine from XP, but in Ubuntu I can only read. In XP I use 
"Ext2 IFS version 1.10c" to access the Ext3 drive.
http://www.fs-driver.org/extendeddl.html

The drive was formatted as NTFS originally, then changed to Ext3.

Owner and Group are Root, Owner has all privileges, Group and Others can 
read and execute only.

How do I change the permissions for a hard drive?  Everything I find is 
for directories and files.

TIA
MTYoung


Below are fdisk and fstab for this system.
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mtyoung at osUbuntu1:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       19457   156288321    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       24791   199133676   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hda: 20.8 GB, 20847697920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2534 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2427    19494846   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            2428        2534      859477+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2428        2534      859446   82  Linux swap / Solaris
mtyoung at osUbuntu1:~$

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0
##/dev/sdb1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sdb1     /media/Ext2Docs200    ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 
0       1







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