80GB USB HDD & No Permission

[Fred Roller]

On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 23:42 -0500, Willis Taylor wrote:
> Below is the output for both and thanks for the reply.

Is the drive mounted?

sudo chown -r username:username /media/disk

username = your user name
disk = mount point (typically /media/disk unless you set a label)

This has usually fixed it for me for local system

sudo chmod 777 /media/disk

This will usually fix across linux systems

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