[iwanabeguru]

hi
do not complicate this too much
debian has a premade group for disks this group is "disk"

so
login as root, use su or sudo to get root permissions
add yourself to the disk group

usermod -G disk your_user_name

change the group and permission on the device node file , in this case hdc1 and others

chgrp disk /dev/hdc1
chmod 770 /dev/hdc1

edit your fstab and add this line for hdc1

/dev/hdc1 /mnt/maxtor ext3 rw,user,default 0 0

umount the partition if ti mounted and try mount as user amd try write to the partition.

[hyeteck]

hey guys,

i got it to work..thanks..i tried adding myself to group disks but for somethign reason wouldn't work.

what i did is I created a group called "drives" and then added myself and root in there. then i did a "chown my_user_name:drives /mnt/maxtor"
and then a "chmod 770 /mnt/maxtor"...and unmounted and remounted and it worked.

thanks