80GB USB HDD & No Permission

[Daryl Styrk]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:12:11PM -0500, Stephen wrote:
> Willis Taylor wrote:
> >
> > ________________________________________________________________________
> > I have an 80GB harddrive that I formatted with a Gparted Live CD to be
> > ext3. I purchased a USB case for external use and the drive mounts with
> > no problem. When I try to back up my home directory by dragging and
> > dropping I am told I do not have root privilege and when I look at the
> > permissions for the drive they are all grayed out. 
> >
> > Help please.
> >   
> If I were in your position I would try re-formating it in fat32. I have 
> a usb case with a 120 gig IDE drive in it and don't have any problems.
> 



You only would need to use fat32 if you plan on using it on the 'other'
OS.  fat32 has some limitations you don't run into with ext2/3/4.  Notably
file sizes.  I believe fat is limited to 2G, don't quote me on that.  You
also lose the journaled feature ext3/4 provides should the volume be
unmounted improperly. (Power failure etc.) 

I would stick with ext3 and if you still have another OS around, get that
OS to mount ext3 filesystems. 


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Daryl Styrk
Naples FL, USA