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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,
just a suggestion, have u try setting the fstype to auto (autodetect) rather
than ext3?
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Wong Kum Weng, Andrew
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