Can't Write to External Drive From User Account

[Glen Strom]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:40:29 +0700
Fajar Priyanto <fajarpri-RL4StXjWbcMdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Monday 26 February 2007 09:26, Glen Strom wrote:
> > I recently bought a 200 GB Maxtor OneTouch III USB 2.0 external hard
> > drive. My system is a Dell Dimension 4100 running Slackware 10.2
> > with a 2.4.31 kernel.
> >
> > The drive was recognized as sda. I partitioned it as sda1 and sda2.
> > From root, everything works fine. From my user account, I can't
> > write to the drive. I can mount it and read it, but not write to it.
> >
> > Since I have no trouble mounting the drive, I believe the fstab
> > entries are correct:
> >
> > /dev/sda1   /mnt/usbdrive1   ext3  noauto,rw,users 0   0
> > /dev/sda2   /mnt/usbdrive2   ext3  noauto,rw,users 0   0
> >
> >
> > The permissions on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 were as follows:
> >
> > rw- r-- --- root disk
> >
> > My user account is already a member of the disk group, so I
> > changed the permissions to rw- rw- ---, but that didn't help.
> >
> > I don't know if this might be a Slackware-specific problem or a
> > general permissions problem with some small thing I've overlooked.
> > Does anyone have a suggestion?
> 
> Hi Glen,
> You have done the right thing. However since the /dev is owned by
> root and the permission is likely rwxr-xr-x, then it's still not
> writable. So, let's try this:
> 1. Make a directory in /dev/sda1, such as /dev/sda1/mydata
> 2. And chown it to your use account.
> 

That works. Thanks to both Fajar and Christopher.


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