Hi,

The following has me stumped: I now have 3 hard drives: The primary (hda) on which I'm currently running Fedora Core 3, a secondary (hdb) which I use for testing other distributions/versions and such, and now another secondary (hdd) which I want to use as file storage.

I can successfully mount all the ext3 partitions on hdb and hdd using the command: mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6 , and so on, but am tired of having to be root to move around files.

So my question is how can I mount those partitions so that I can read and write to them from my normal user account?

I've tried using commands including (but not limited to):
mount -t ext3 -o user,rw,exec,uid=500 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
mount -t ext3 -o user,rw,exec,uid=500,umask=000 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
mount -t ext3 -o ro,uid=500 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
mount -t ext3 -o ro /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1

and nothing works. All but the last one give me an error, and none of them make it so I can read/write to my other partitions as a non-root user. I've also tried adding to fstab, and that returns errors also. So what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

You need to make sure the files on the actual partition can be written to by the user, ext3 supports linux permissions you you might need to do a little chown -R

Hi,

Thanks. I had actually tried using chown -R before, but it wouldn't work, saying the files were read only (even though I was using it as root). Though, I hadn't tried it recently, and I discovered that once I had mounted the filesystems using only the -o rw option, chown -R worked and I was able to make all the files belong to my normal user. Problem solved

I figured it was something simple that I was overlooking...