SOLVED - ownership of external usb h/d

[Sharon Kimble <skimble04@gmail.com>]

After much help on IRC in hte #debian channel, it now works.

I had to ;=
ls -l /media ...... which showed
drwxr-xr-x 182 root root 12288 Dec 20 21:42 8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459

Then ........... chown root:boztu /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459

Then ............ chmod 775 /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459

And finally ...... ls -l /media ................ which showed
drwxrwxr-x 182 root boztu 12288 Dec 20 21:42
8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459

Then to test it ........ mkdir /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459/test
and "test" showed up in the directories of the relevant drive!

And it now is loaded from fstab with this following line ;=
/dev/sdb1       /media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459     auto
 rw,user,noauto  0       0

Success! Thanks folks!

A very happy bunny
Sharon.
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