Can't Write to External Drive From User Account

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 09:26:16PM -0500, 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

Device permissions have nothing to do with filesystem access, only raw
device access.

> 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?

If it is in fact ext3 then it all comes down to normal unix permissions.
Who owns the root directory of /mnt/usbdrive1 and /mnt/usbdrive2?

ls -ld /mnt/usbdrive[12]

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