Strange external drive problem [SOLVED]

[Teunis]

I have a 500GB 2.5" drive with one NTFS and one ext2 partition.
Two days ago I could suddenly no longer access the ext2 partition, Dolphin returned the message 'Folder not available' (or such).
I ran e2fsck on it but no problems were found and I could still not access the partition.
Yet it would mount and unmount without a problem.

After a nights sleep I decided to fire up Krusader in root mode and, behold, all data was still there!
Something caused the whole partition to belong to root instead of owner Teunis.
After I changed it back all was well.

I can't possibly figure out what could have caused this glitch but would like to warn against hasty reformats. :P

[dibl]

Re: Strange external drive problem [SOLVED]

The default arrangement for Linux, except for USB connections, is that root owns hard drives. USB connected drives are a bit different, apparently. The path of least resistance, in my experience upon installing a new hard drive, is to (as root) make data folders on it, and set the permissions for the users on the folders. Then you can mount the partition in /etc/fstab and the users can have their way with the data folders, and not have the ability to bork up the device itself.

[wizard10000]

Re: Strange external drive problem [SOLVED]

The default arrangement for Linux, except for USB connections, is that root owns hard drives. USB connected drives are a bit different, apparently. The path of least resistance, in my experience upon installing a new hard drive, is to (as root) make data folders on it, and set the permissions for the users on the folders. Then you can mount the partition in /etc/fstab and the users can have their way with the data folders, and not have the ability to bork up the device itself.

Or create an fstab entry and a mount point and assign the drive to your UID.