Trying to change drive permissions

[photofinishron]

Ok, I'm posting the question because after searching and finding other similar threads I still can't seem to find an answer which works for my system.

The drive is a WD MyPassport USB drive formatted with ext3 file system My intent is to use the drive to save a PartedImage backup of the IBM-LT hard drive image. So I need to be able to see it as a writable drive.

I can change to the drive in the terminal and see my directory:

IBM-LT: /home/ron# cd /media/disk
IBM-LT: /media/disk# ls -l
total 2
drwxr-x-r-x 2 root root 4096 2010-08-16 13:25 ibmbackup
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2010-08-14 16:40 lost+found
IBM-LT: /media/disk#

The directory ibmbackup is one I created through the terminal with the mkdir command but it's even a read only file.

Hope this is enough info to work from.

Thanks

Ron

[photofinishron]

Nobody knows, nobody understands my question, or the question asked wasn't needed to be ask...

Guessing option 3 because I got done what I was trying to do.

But still it would be nice to know how to change the permissions when typical change paths aren't available.

Ron

[devils casper]

You must give ownership of /media/disk to Regular User.
Execute id command as Regular User and note down User_id and Group_Id.

Log in as root and execute this

chown -R /media/disk  user_id:group_id

[photofinishron]

You must give ownership of /media/disk to Regular User.
Execute id command as Regular User and note down User_id and Group_Id.

Log in as root and execute this

chown -R /media/disk  user_id:group_id

Thanks, I'll give this a try.

Ron