80GB USB HDD & No Permission

[Keith]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, 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.
>


$ ls -l /media

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    6 2009-06-27 13:01 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-27 13:01 cdrom0
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2009-06-27 14:14 disk
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    7 2009-06-27 13:01 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-27 13:01 floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-06-27 14:01 usbdrive
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Who owns it and what are the write permissions?

sudo chmod 770 /media/usbdrive
sudo chown root:loginnamehere /media/usbdrive

You can create a script to accomplish this
each time you mount the device or you can learn to modify hal
to do it for you here:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL


HTH,

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Best Regards, Keith
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