Re: Of dreams in the sky and pieces on the ground...

Hi Bob, et al.

Glad you initial exposure to the AKLUG, Friday Night Laboratory Session
(FNLS) was satisfactory.

My experience with my external USB drive closely parallels yours. I to
partitioned and formatted with EXT3 including setting up a swap
partition. My initial thought was to put on my favorite distribution
(Debian of course) and use it to boot any stray computer I might be
forced to use whilst I was in the field. Then I found getting any
computer to boot from USB was probably more than I wanted to worry
about. So I simply use partition 3 for my Debian mirror as I originally
intended.

I also had trouble mounting the partition (one mounts a file system to
another file system) as a non-root user. I tried various hacks, but
nothing worked. I finally mounted the partition as root and used chown
to change the subdirectories to the non-root user (me) I wanted to be
able to have write as well as read priviledges.

Perhaps someone has a better solution. fgd.

Bob Crowe wrote:
> Howdy,
> I tried to cruise some forums and use Google for my problem but to no
> avail. I am currently using FC3 and I had this exact same problem with
> Suse 9.3. I'm able to repartition and format a Maxtor One Touch 160 GB
> USB external hard drive. I have read capability but no write through my
> user. I can write only as root. I am using this drive as a secondary
> drive for backup purposes only and it is formatted in EXT3 (my version
> of FC3 didn't have Reiserfs in the mk directory, I'm willing to deal
> with the file integrity check every 30 mounts.) Anyone know what's going
> on and have a solution? Again that last meeting was the bomb, it's good
> to be around others as crazy as yourself. ;) Take care, Bob.
>
> p.s. I fall under the Newb category
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