changing permissions for mounted drives

[Darr]

On Saturday, 23 October, 2010 @21:11 zulu, sumatheja scribed:

> i used chown to change the ownership , it din't work. Then i tried
> changing the permissions of the directory using chmod even this one
> dint work.

Why not just start out mounting it in /etc/fstab with the owner and group 
(e.g. UID and GID) that you want?

Also, check out the
$ blkid
command to mount it with the UUID rather than a partition number that might 
change.

I do not recommend the fstab GUI that's available, because it strips out all 
the comment lines.  :-(