Need Write Access To My Harddisk

hello
i have kde 4.4 and suse 11
but when i login kde as a normal user
i cannot write to the disk my seccond disk
to /mymedia

how can i give a user access to write to that disk ?
thanks

more information needed
1) your /etc/fstab
2) disk type and connection (internal, external, USB, firewire and so on)

You also know openSUSE 11 is still in beta and am not sure if KDE is up to version 4.4 yet.

But provide what was suggested above.

more information needed
1) your /etc/fstab
2) disk type and connection (internal, external, USB, firewire and so on)
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/etc/fstab ?
i am a linux newbie i dont know how to use /etc/fstab
but by second disk is internal

device node : /dev/sdb1
base url : file:///mymedia
owner : root - root
permissions : drwxr-xr-x

i hope you can help me with this

/etc/fstab ?
i am a linux newbie i dont know how to use /etc/fstab
but by second disk is internal

device node : /dev/sdb1
base url : file:///mymedia
owner : root - root
permissions : drwxr-xr-x

i hope you can help me with this
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to show us your fstab, open up a console window, then type the following:

kdesu kate /etc/fstab

post the results here. it may be ntfs, in which case you need ntfs-3g installed. after fstab we will be able to help you more.

thank you.

/etc/fstab ?
i am a linux newbie i dont know how to use /etc/fstab
but by second disk is internal

device node : /dev/sdb1
base url : file:///mymedia
owner : root - root
permissions : drwxr-xr-x

i hope you can help me with this
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You can open a console and enter this: cat /etc/fstab > /home/your_username/Desktop/fstab.txt
That will give you a copy of the file on your Desktop which you can look at without doing any damage. You can also use copy/paste techniques to get that info back here and supply it as point #1 of broch's request.

Swerdna

to show us your fstab, open up a console window, then type the following:

kdesu kate /etc/fstab

post the results here. it may be ntfs, in which case you need ntfs-3g installed. after fstab we will be able to help you more.

thank you.
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when i install suse i did not what to have windows partitions i have other computers for that.

here is my fstab

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2D9T4NE-part1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST380021A_3HV4025F-part1 /mymedia ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2D9T4NE-part2 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

well, it's format ext3 so no issues with that, must be ownership issue. do you want all users full read/write acces to it? or what? simply put, for all users to have full read write access, open a console, type in:

su
*enter root password
chmod -R 777 /mymedia

note the capital R after chmod, not a lower case r. if you want to be the owner then log in as su on a console like before and type

chown yourusername /mymedia

if you want other permissions for other users let us know and i will try to help, or someone else will.

Ross.

well, it's format ext3 so no issues with that, must be ownership issue. do you want all users full read/write acces to it? or what? simply put, for all users to have full read write access, open a console, type in:

su
*enter root password
chmod -R 777 /mymedia

note the capital R after chmod, not a lower case r. if you want to be the owner then log in as su on a console like before and type

chown yourusername /mymedia

if you want other permissions for other users let us know and i will try to help, or someone else will.

Ross.
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Do you have to unmount it before chmod and chown?

well, it's format ext3 so no issues with that, must be ownership issue. do you want all users full read/write acces to it? or what? simply put, for all users to have full read write access, open a console, type in:

su
*enter root password
chmod -R 777 /mymedia

note the capital R after chmod, not a lower case r. if you want to be the owner then log in as su on a console like before and type

chown yourusername /mymedia

if you want other permissions for other users let us know and i will try to help, or someone else will.

Ross.
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thanks alot !!!!
this realy helps me