If you chmod it as publicly writable, you will not continue to have issues on that machine as well as others.
ext3, like NTFS, has Mandatory Access Control (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_access_control ) built in, unlike FAT. In ubuntu, however, NTFS file permissions arn't respected. ext3 permissions are. When you first make a ext3 partition, it is writable only as root. To change it, you chmod. If you "sudo useradd foo; mkdir /home/foo", that user cannot write to his home directory because the properties of the / partition are "by default, set to root only can write". -- ext3 partitions on external usb drives can only be written to by root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222626 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
