(Crossposted from hardware section.)

First of all I would like to say Hi to everyone here!

Okies, my problem. I am currently running a IBM X40, dual booting winxp and suse9.1. I have one bay in the dock and I switch a dvd-cdr combo drive in and out with a 80 gig hard drive. Before I installed Linux, I killed the NTFS partition on the drive and left it unpartitioned. When I booted up linux, it found the drive, and I partitioned it Fat32. Now to my problem:

The permissions are all screwed up. I have tried everything I can think of. The obvious stuff: Logged in as root and changed all the permissions (they didn't save) | Changed the Owner (didn't save) | Had a friend who knows linux chmod 777 . (i believe was the command) it. I also repartitioned it and made sure I didn't have any strange partition rules in it then. I could really use a link to a toutorial (I checked this site, and google) or a step by step to get it running. Thanks in advance, and thanks for your time.

Lifix.

You are probably mounting the drive. Am I right? If so, you have to specify the permissions at mounting. Although I don't know from the top of my head how to do this. Look it up in LQ search or Google. Search for mounting permissions. You probably can write to the drive as root, but not as user. Try to write to it before acting. If that is the case, you just have to change permissions at mounting.

Once you know what is wrong, you will have to either change your mount command or adjust the /etc/fstab file according to your needs.