USB Hard Disk Permissions


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I have a 60GB USB disk that I carry to work, to class, home, etc. for general-purpose data transport. I had it partitioned with ~45GB FAT32 for compatibility and ~15GB NTFS for large filesize support (not actually 45 and 15 due to the UOM thing, but you get the idea).

I discovered the wonderful ext2fsd and ext2fsx drivers for Windows and Mac OS X so I can read ext2/ext3 formatted volumes on them. Deciding that this would be preferable to my hybrid FAT32/NTFS configuration, I backed up the NTFS partition and reformatted it as ext3 to test.

All is pretty much well except for one niggling problem: on my Ubuntu system, while the drive mounts and the data is accessible, I can't write to the disk without chmodding it first. I've only tried this once (last night) but anyway, my question is:

Now that I've chmodded the drive once (777, but I'll lock it down a little more later), will Ubuntu retain that setting or do I have to edit /etc/fstab to get it to mount writable every time?

If so...anyone here who can give me a quick-and-dirty guide to /etc/fstab?

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