Conditions:

I have two hard drives. I am not dual booting. Mandrake 9.2 is installed on one drive, and I have the other formatted.

I have a /mnt/windows that remains there, regardless of where I mount the second hard drive. As a root, I can write to the hard drive, but as the normal user, I can't get write access. I've tried different file systems... I used FAT32 and tried the umask=0, that didn't work. I used ext3, and that didnt work. For right now I have the mount point under /mnt/windows, and have only one partition (until I can figure out what to do to get user write access). The fstab file is pasted below. hg1 is the 2nd hard drive. What should I change? Oh and by the way, should I be using a different filesystem rather than ext3?


/dev/hde1 / ext3 noatime 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hde6 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hda,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,sync,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hdg1 /mnt/windows ext3 user,suid,exec,dev 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hde5 swap swap defaults 0 0


Eventually I want to make multiple partitions like /usr/media, /usr/pictures, etc. But when I tried that, I still had the /mnt/windows directory (even though there was nothing mounted there. I looked at the man for mount under the ext3 system, and it looks like "user,suid,exec,dev" should give me write access, but it doesn't.

Thanks for any help you can direct me to.

-Is your mount(/mnt) directory without read/access permissions?
-Have you tried to chmod the actual mountpoint after you have mounted it (like 'chmod go+rwx /mnt/windows')?