[64studio-devel] HDD: Write permissions for ordinary user?

[Quentin Harley]

R.Wolff wrote:
> OK, I'M starting away with my questions then:
>
> it seems I can't gain write access to my HDD when I'm not logged in as
> root. How can I remedy this? I have tried to adjust fstab, mtab etc, to
> no avail. I've tried chmod, chown without success, I've tried giving rw,
> exec permissions to all my drives from the the root account, didn't work
> neither. There are just so many things I don't (yet) understand. And
> there are so many things interconnected/dependant of each other, that
> it's really not easy to get to grips with Linux.
>
>   

I had to change change the owner group of my secondary HDD to "audio".  
 From then on I had realtime full access to that HDD.  For me, the 
easiest way to organise this is to run nautilus (the file manager) as 
root.  Open a root terminal window, and then just type nautilus.  You 
can then change the properties of any folder.  Check out the folder 
settings for your home folder, and use that - if only you are going to 
use the PC, or use the audio group.

Quentin