80GB USB HDD & No Permission

[Nils Kassube]

Willis Taylor wrote:
>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.

Make a directory on the disk owned by you with these commands

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

where you would replace the /media/disk part with the actual mount point 
if I guessed wrong.

Then you can backup your files to the new directory which is owned by 
you.


Nils