[ale] ext3 formatted USB disks

[James Sumners]

If this is your personal desktop, I don't seen any problem with
setting the permissions on the top level mount directory. I.E. if you
mount the disk to `/mnt/external` then `chown -R user.user
/mnt/external`. And make sure the 'user' option is specified in the
fstab.

On 6/2/07, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 16:02 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> > You just need to change the permissions on the mounted FS so that your
> > user can write to it. FAT does not support user permissions, that is
> > why it lets anyone alter the FS.
>
> That is what I thought.  I just created a directory on the FS owned by
> me.  That seems to work for now.

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