Slave Drive (resend)

[Wayne Smith]

Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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....
>
>
> That should be "sudo chown....."
>
>   
Ok, that takes care of the permissions. Thanks a lot for that. Now, the 
mount point is still listed in the filesystem. If I format the master 
drive, will that wipe out my files on slave also??? If so, how do I 
separate it from the filesystem????