Am Freitag, 10. Dezember 2004 10:09 schrieb Michael A. Peters: > As far existing files on the disk, they will only be writable by the > UID that created them (or GID if group has write permissions) because > ext2/ext3 preserves permissions as a filesystem - fat32 doesn't. > > As root, create a directory on the ext3 partition, and give rwx to your > user. I bet your user can then rwx in that directory, no matter who > mounts it. That's probably what you need to do - create directories on > it owned by the users that are allowed to use it. Then those users can > use it. Or you could create a directory on it with 777 permissions - > like /tmp is (I think you also would want to set the sticky but, not > positive) This is of course the solution and it has been my own stupidity and ignorance that made me seeing a problem where no is. Thank you everyone for your comments. Stephan.