Change Permissions on a new hard drive to allow write...Problem Solved

I'm sure some of you will be put-off by the way I solved it, but it works. I guess I'm the type that likes 'sharp knives', so to speak.

I went to  System -> Administration -> Login Window, clicked on the Security tab, and checked "Allow local system administrator login"

Then I logged out, and logged back in using Username "root", and my usual password.

Then I right clicked on the drive, selected "Properties" then "Permissions" and simply checked the boxes for "write" for Owner, Group, and Others.

I then logged out and back in as usual to test the drive permissions.

I really don't understand why so many people think that logging in as root when needed is such a bad thing, although I can certainly see a better way to accomplish what I needed to do.  See my other post "Vote for new Ubuntu Feature---Let's try it again".

mtyoung wrote:
I recently added a new hard drive (/dev/sdb1)to a dual boot system. The new drive works fine from XP, but in Ubuntu I can only read. In XP I use "Ext2 IFS version 1.10c" to access the Ext3 drive.
http://www.fs-driver.org/extendeddl.html

The drive was formatted as NTFS originally, then changed to Ext3.

Owner and Group are Root, Owner has all privileges, Group and Others can read and execute only.

How do I change the permissions for a hard drive?  Everything I find is for directories and files.

TIA
MTYoung


Below are fdisk and fstab for this system.
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mtyoung@osUbuntu1:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       19457   156288321    7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 203.9 GB, 203928109056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24792 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1       24791   199133676   83  Linux

Disk /dev/hda: 20.8 GB, 20847697920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2534 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1        2427    19494846   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            2428        2534      859477+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5            2428        2534      859446   82  Linux swap / Solaris
mtyoung@osUbuntu1:~$

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
/dev/sda1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0
##/dev/sdb1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0
/dev/sdb1     /media/Ext2Docs200    ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1




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