USB external disk write permission. What have I done wrong?

[Karl Larsen]

Rashkae wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>     First chown will NOT work on /media/disk/. You need to use df to 
>> find out the right /dev/ to use. Then you can use chown on your external 
>> partition.
>>     
>
> This is just wrong, wrong, and wrong,, never chown /dev entries unless
> you *really* know what you're doing... chown /media/disk was the right
> thing to do.
>
> Sorry, don't know why changing the ownership on an external FS would
> prevent automount from working, and not able to test right atm.
>
>   
    Well I KNOW you can chown from the /dev/ address because I did it on 
MY USB hard drive. Worked fine and did not stop automount. Where do you 
get your info that it is risky to use /dev/???


Karl


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