There is an explanation in the like that provided by James, in "Mount The Drive" section. To make the newdrive available for you to read+write: sudo chown -R USERNAME:USERNAME /media/mynewdrive And there's also explanation about giving permission to write to other user in certain group: sudo chgrp plugdev /media/mynewdrive sudo chmod g+w /media/mynewdrive sudo chmod +t /media/mynewdrive --- Arsya <div>On 9/13/07, Vitaly Babiy <<a href="mailto:VBabiy@verizon.net">VBabiy@verizon.net</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> How would I handle write permission so anyone could write to it. On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 00:23 +1000, James Takac wrote: > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 13:11:05 Vitaly Babiy wrote: > > Is there a GUI tool to handle this kinda of stuff? > > > > On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 12:46 +1000, James Takac wrote: > > > On Wednesday 12 September 2007 12:32:19 Vitaly Babiy wrote: > > > > Hello everyone, > > > > I have a few question I have Ubuntu 7.0.4 install on 1 hard drive > > > > partitioned by the installer. If I add another drive what should I do > > > > do handle this and how can I make it read and writable by all users? > > > > Also how can I make a ext3 USB drive read and writable by all users? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Vitaly > > > > > > Hi Vitaly > > > > > > I just went through the same yesterday and used the following link as my > > > guide > > > > > > <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive</a> > > > > > > James > > Hi Vitaly > > Not that I'm aware of. It's not that hard to do actually. I even forewent > creating a mount point and just mounted the drive in the root directory > > James > -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>