Hey guys I don't want this to sound like a stupid question, but I added and extra drive to my PC for storage, and it is properly formatted as my hdb drive and mounted, is there anyway I can access this hdd as a regular user instead of super user?

Please let me know if there is a way.

I just want to use this hdd as extra storage.

It is mounted as hdb1 as Journalised FS: ext3

Any suggestions?

d-1

There is a couple things that I will mention and I'm not sure if you did either of them or not. First is the new hard drive listed in your '/etc/fstab' file? If so under the options section (4th column from the left) do you have 'users' listed as one of the options? This will allow the users to use the file system (to my knowledge). I hope this helps. Post back with any questions

Run KDESU Konquerer, right click on name of folder (or what I named the partition), check properties tab, change read and write to all groups, then check the box that says apply changes to all subfolders and their contents.

d-1

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda6 / ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /storage ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

With the partition mounted, open a console and run:

$ su
<enter root password>
# chmod 1777 /storage

Hey Kilgoretrout, thanks for pointing that out. Prior to receiving your post, I turned my PC off and could no longer access my hdb drive or files. I am writing zero fill to that drive and starting over and I will try your command....

Thanks,,,,

d-1

Make sure you run the chmod command with the partition mounted or it won't work. Generically, for any linux filesystem the command is:

# chmod 1777 <mount point>

That will give all users read/write access to the partition. This doesn't work for FAT and FAT32 filesystems. For those, you have to adjust the options in their fstab entry.