other partition question

[James Michael Fultz]

* Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com> [2009-12-08 20:23 -0500]:
> So i created a partion called data.  When I go to store files in data, that
> action is not permittted.  There is one more thing I need to do and can not
> seem to find what that is.  I bet one of you knows just what to do.  I have
> had this problem once before and i have forgotten the solution.

Change ownership, permissions or both on the mount point to permit
writing to the appropriate user or users.  Alternatively, create
per-user subdirectories beneath the mount point and set ownership and
permission for those individually.

Examples, entered at the shell prompt ($) in a terminal:

Change ownership of mount point ('/data') to owner "youruser".

$ chown youruser /data

Change permissions to allow any user file and directory creation but may
only remove files or directories belonging to them (like on '/tmp').

$ chmod 1777 /data