Creating an external Hard Drive

[RyanP]

Hello again...
I recently bought a USB hard drive enclosure and would like us it with an old hard drive as a mobile storage device. I have already formated the drive with the ext3 filesystem but I still need a little help.

1.How do I ensure that all users/PCs will have read/write permissions (currently owed by root).
2.I want to rename it so that I recognize it quickly. I renamed it while in root but the name did not carry threw when I logged on as myself.
3.Any other help tips/trick would be appreciated.

Thanks for any help,
Ryan

[Lazydog]

Hello again...
I recently bought a USB hard drive enclosure and would like us it with an old hard drive as a mobile storage device. I have already formated the drive with the ext3 filesystem but I still need a little help.

1.How do I ensure that all users/PCs will have read/write permissions (currently owed by root).

chmod -R 777 <usb drive>

the '-R' is just in case there are any subdirs on it already.

2.I want to rename it so that I recognize it quickly. I renamed it while in root but the name did not carry threw when I logged on as myself.

Not sure I understand what you mean here.
What did you rename it to and how?
What does it show up as when you are logged in as a normal user?

3.Any other help tips/trick would be appreciated.

I might have formatted it as FAT that way it could be used by windows machines also.
Never know when you might just want/need to hookup to one of them there machines.