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Lucinda said the following on 05/16/04 09:49:
| Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.netWORK> wrote in message
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|>In alt.os.linux.slackware, Lucinda dared to utter,
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|>>/dev/sdb3 /mnt/iomega ext3 noauto,user,rw 0 0
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|>>And I have set the permissions for /dev/sdb3 to 777 (I am the only
|>>user on my system).
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|>Setting your hard drive partition to 777 is still a bad idea. Fix that.
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|>What are the permissions on /mnt/iomega?
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| I have also set the permissions to 777 on /mnt/iomega to see if it
| would work, but it still doesn't help. I'm not sure what to try next.
| What permissions would you put on /dev/sdb3? What is the
| conventional wisdome for devices?

Hi,

1) have u try setting the fstype to auto (autodetect) rather than ext3?

2) if your last mount for that drive is using root, I suggest you detach
then attach the device, reason being that all permission on that drive will
becomes only accessible to root, you will have a permission denied error
even if you managed to mount it successfully. and it doesn't matter if your
have set the permission to 777 for the device, during mount time, the
permission will change depending on the environment.

good luck.

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Best regards,

Wong Kum Weng, Andrew

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