Slave Drive

[Ed Greshko]

Wayne Smith wrote:
> Wayne Smith <AdminPublisher <at> earthlink.net> writes:
> 
>> Anybody have any pointers about how to setup a slave drive???? I just 
>> want to use it separately from the Filesystem as storage for my files.
>>
>> I put it in the computer and formatted it with QTParted. For some 
>> reason, though, it's not listed in Computer, and I have no idea how to 
>> mount it up otherwise and use it.
>>
>>
> 
> 
> The drive I'm trying to use is a Western Digital 80gb hard drive. I want to use
> it separately from my filesystem as storage for my files. I have it setup as a
> slave drive apart from the master drive. I managed to get it mounted by
> reformatting it in ext3 with QTParted and rebooting the computer. Now, however,
> it says the drive belongs to root and I can't read or write to it. It's an IDE
> drive.

Simple.....

In a terminal window cd to the mount point (with the drive mounted) and 
simply "chown username:groupname ."  Where username is your user name.  The 
groupname is normally the same....