Hi

As user I can't create any directory except those under /home/user/.
When I go to /dev/hdb1 I receive an error "permission denied".
As root, I can do these things.
Is this normal? Can I do something about it.

Dummoi

it's normal, users are normally confined to the own home directories.

ok,
is it possible to mount the second hard disk to /home/user so I can use the free space of it?

of course - but be aware that contents of /home/user would then be inaccessible as long as the other partition is mounted. instead, just make another directory with "mkdir" within /home/user, or better, under /mnt. (use "su" to become root to make them, and chmod to correct permissions - see below)

also, read these:

https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...ownership.html

https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/...GE-FS-MOUNTING

Hi,

Thanx for the sites.. I read them and now I begin to understand a bit about permissions.
Well, the hd was mounted at /mnt/hdb1, so I didn't change that because I think it's useless. I'll put my files then under /mnt/hdb1. But of what do I have to change permissions. /dev/hdb1 or /mnt/hdb1. I can't see anything wron about the permissions

dieter@dieter:/mnt$ ls -l /dev/hdb
brw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 3, 64 Jun 9 2002 /dev/hdb
dieter@dieter:/mnt$ ls -l /dev/hdb1
brwxrwxr-x 1 root disk 3, 65 Jun 9 2002 /dev/hdb1
dieter@dieter:/mnt$ ls -l /mnt
total 28
...
drwxr--r-- 2 root root 4096 Jan 1 1970 hdb1/