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ok sorry if this is a stupid question, im a linux n00b. ok, i have 2 hard drives. im trying to give access to one of them from a none ...
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    giving access to a hard drive to all users

    ok sorry if this is a stupid question, im a linux n00b.

    ok, i have 2 hard drives. im trying to give access to one of them from a none root login. how do i do this?

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    figure out where it is mounted and use this as an example, if it is mounted to /mnt/sharedharddrive then you would
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    chmod 777 /mnt/sharedharddrive
    remember to change the /mnt/sharedharddrive to whatever your mount point is for the drive
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    it worked! thanks!

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    if ur using fstab to mount it you may also wanna check this link out:
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