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Old 02-19-2008, 11:33 AM
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Default Re: Question on Permission for External Hard Drive

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Alan Hicks <alan@lizella.network> wrote:
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> In alt.os.linux.slackware, Lucinda dared to utter,
> > 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.


> And everything works as root, but not as a normal user? That's very
> unusual, and I'm not sure what you've done to create this problem. Have
> you tried creating an image file of the drive's contents using "dd"? If
> you can do that, try loopback mounting it and see what you get.
> Warning, that image could take up a hella lota space.


> > What permissions would you put on /dev/sdb3? What is the
> > conventional wisdome for devices?


> alan@carrier~# ls -l /dev/sdb3
> brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 19 Apr 29 1995 /dev/sdb3


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