80GB USB HDD & No Permission

[Daryl Styrk]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 09:48:29PM -0500, Willis Taylor wrote:
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> I have an 80GB harddrive that I formatted with a Gparted Live CD to be
> ext3. I purchased a USB case for external use and the drive mounts with
> no problem. When I try to back up my home directory by dragging and
> dropping I am told I do not have root privilege and when I look at the
> permissions for the drive they are all grayed out. 
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> Help please.
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Please post the output of 'mount' and most likely the output of 
ls -l /media

More than likely your going to be doing 
sudo chown -R you:you /media/disk

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Daryl Styrk
Naples FL, USA