mounting ext3 drive with R/W permission???

[Tim]

On Fri, 2006-11-03 at 12:55 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote:
> I had FC5 installed in first drive (hda). I have recently added the
> new 20GB (hdb) and created a one whole partition and formatted to ext3
> using GParted.
> 
> my problem is
> ----------------------
> I can't mount the drive with the permission to write by other users. 

I've done a similar thing, with similar results.  I worked around it in
two ways:

Created a sub-directory with permissions allowing users to write into
it.

Changed the ownership of the mount point to myself, simply because I
wanted to be able to write into the root of that mount point.

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