hard drive permissions

[Nils Kassube]

Douglas Pollard wrote:
> Hi All,    I had to replace the second hard drive on a single boot
> system. I have Ubuntu  8.04 on the first drive.  I partitioned the
> second drive using the live Ubuntu cd.  The drive belongs to root and  
> I, as user, cannot add and remove files.  I kinda know how to change
> permissions on a file, but have not figured out how to change a drive.
> Everything I'm reading refers to changing permissions on a file but I
> am working with a drive.  Can I get some help here.

In this situation I usually suggest to make a directory on the disk for 
the user and then change the ownership of the directory for that user. 
You can do it like this:

sudo mkdir /media/disk/$USER
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /media/disk/$USER

You may need to change the path where the disk is mounted but you can 
leave the "$USER" part unchanged because the shell will replace it with 
your login name.


Nils