Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Lorenzo Bettini wrote:After the ext3 partition is mounted, try changing the ownership of the files and directories to yourself (as root, of course)HiI 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 0but nothing changes... where am I doing wrong? thanks in advance Lorenzo# chown <username> -R /media/onetouch2
yes, that's the solution... I had realized it some time after posting the question :-)
it wasn't a problem with mount it was a problem related to the permissions in the partition itself.
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