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Old 05-06-2008, 05:43 AM   #1
abhattacharya
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Unhappy user has no writing permission in portable hard drive


Hello
i have a FC6 machine. As a root user i can write data in portable hard disk but as a normal user i can only read it from the portable disk. It says that i have to permission to write in the disk. How can i change this and make the portable hard disk writable for all user?
my /etc/fstab file is as follows

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0



pleas help me out
 
Old 05-06-2008, 06:12 AM   #2
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when you connect the HDD , doesn't it get mounted automatically ?


show the output of 'mount' command after you connect the HDD
 
  


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