Re: Mounting and writing to second hard drive...

[Ian Rawlings <news06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2008-07-30, zed <zed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There is only one user - zed.

.. and root, plus a few others, but I take it that the only user that
needs to access the drive is "zed".

> zed-desktop disk # chown /media/disk/zed

If that's the right path to the disc directory then try;

chown -R zed /media/disk/zed/.

Do the following though so we know what filesystem is on it as this
changes things, as someone else has said, if it's a vfat filesystem or
other old ms-dos style filesystem, it can't handle file ownership.

mount | grep zed

Post the results.

Also, try leaving the disc disconnected until you are logged in to the
desktop, then plug it in and see if it mounts it correctly and lets
you write to it.  I'm assuming it's USB or firewire.

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