Need help to use External USB HardDrive ...

[vasco]

Hi ,
I have an USB HD external with 2 partitions: one NTFS and the other EXT3 and on both of them I can not write or do anything inside ( only read), If I try to I get the message: Permission denied to media...

Here is the output from fdisk -l command:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00034475

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2874 9729 55070820 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a6466

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 16790 134865643+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 16791 38913 177702997+ 83 Linux


Any help would be appreciated
many thanks
vasco

[devils casper]

SUSE doesn't support NTFS write access out of box. Install ntfs-3g package to enable it.
For ext3 write access, either login as root user or give ownership of ext3 partition to Regular user.

[vasco]

Thanks devils Casper for your help, here is what I found:

I am using openSUSE 10.3 and the ntfs-3g package is installed.

And can you advise me how to "give ownership of EXT3 partitions to regular user"?

I tried right mouse click on that partition and change attributes but with no results, access denied!!

Regards
Vasco

[devils casper]

Log in as Regular User and execute this

id

Note down User_id and Group_id. Let say User_ID is vasco and Group_id is vgroup. Execute this

su -
chown vasco:vgroup <mount_point>
exit

<mount_point> is a folder where you have mounted ext3 partition.