Hello, after using Fedora Core 4 for a while and enjoying the integration of my various USB sticks and devices, I am currently looking into attaching a USB hard disk. Well, it basically works. I attach the device, turn it on and then the available partition gets mounted. So far so good. First of all I would like to use ext2 on the disk, cause fat32 feels a little bit strange to me. It is okay for USB Sticks and stuff, but not for a 250GB USB disk I want to use for backup and external storage. No problem, I can format the disk with ext2. But here my problems and questions start: - Why is a fat32 disk mounted under a mount point that is owned by the current user? - Why isn't this the case with ext2 formated disks? - The result is, that I have an attached, mounted and ext 2 formatted USB disk, but contrary to the experience with fat formatted device, I am not able to access the device as the user I am currently locked in. Okay, I can do all the stuff I want as root, but why shall I want to do it? What I expect as a user is, that I can just use the disk as I would do with a fat disk. I am perfectly aware, that ext2 has some other requirements and possibilities compared to fat32. But all this is irrelevant for a usb disk in my eyes. I just want the realiability of ext2. So, my question is, how can I change the behaviour of mounting an ext2 usb disk in such a way, that it is comparable to the way a fat32 disk is mounted? I hope my question and thinking behind it is understandable. Best regards, Oliver Andrich -- Oliver Andrich --- oliver.andrich@xxxxxxxxx --- http://roughbook.de/
