[vox-tech] mounting an external drive

[Jennifer Stickel]

I have an external drive setup through a firewire on a Sony laptop.  I 
think I have one of the partitions on the drive setup at ext3....but how 
can I make sure that it it?  Also how can I mount it so that any user 
and not just root can write to it?  I have tried modifying my fstab file 
a few times this is what I have now (I can mount it as ext2 or ext3).  I 
can mount the drive as a user now but still can't write to it.

   LABEL=/                 /                       ext3   
   defaults        1 1
   LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3   
   defaults        1 2
   none                    /dev/pts                devpts 
   gid=5,mode=620  0 0
   none                    /proc                   proc   
   defaults        0 0
   none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs  
   defaults        0 0
   /dev/hda5               swap                    swap   
   defaults        0 0
   /dev/sda5               /Data1                  vfat   
   defaults,umask=0000 0 0
   /dev/sda6               /Data2                  vfat   
   defaults,umask=0000 0 0
   /dev/sda7               /LinuxExtra             ext2   
   users,rw,exec        0 0
   /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660
   noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
   /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto   
   noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

I would like to be able to mount this on boot and this fstab does that 
except that I can't write to it.  Thanks

Jennifer

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