Re: mounting usb hard disk

[Raj Kiran Grandhi <grajkiran@gmail.com>]

Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have an external usb hard disk which also contains an ext3 partition 
> (besides the standard fat one).
>
> When I switch it on, kde detects it and offers to open the contents in a 
> new window (for both partitions); however, while the fat partition is 
> mounted on a directory (under /media) whose owner is myself, for the 
> ext3 partition the owner of the directory is always root and I can write 
> into that partition...
>
> I've also tried to insert this line in /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/sda2 /media/onetouch2 ext3 user,noatime,noauto,rw,nodev,noexec,suid 
> 0 0
>
> but nothing changes...
>
> where am I doing wrong?
>
> thanks in advance
>     Lorenzo
After the ext3 partition is mounted, try changing the ownership of the 
files and directories to yourself (as root, of course)

# chown <username> -R /media/onetouch2