[PLUG] Permissions, ownerships and n00bie nightmares

[John Jordan]

On 17 Dec 2005, at 7:18, David Pool wrote:
> 
> ls -la (l for long listing a for all which shows hidden files too)

Thanks. Once I realized it automatically showed the permissions, 
it's faster to user Konqueror, which I always have running.

Thanks to Cooper and Charles I am now able to get it mounted and 
dismounted, and the permissions are correct so I can read/write to 
it. Strangely, sometimes when I plug it in dmesg | tail says it is 
sda and sometimes it is sdb. So I always have to dmesg before 
trying to mount it. Weird.

Even stranger is that it always worked with automount before, 
without any need to do a mount command. It just magically 
mounted the moment I plugged it in. I was always able to 
read/write to it.

I went into System > Administration > Users and Groups  and 
clicked on my username. I have permission to access external 
drives (all the boxes are checked, in fact). So I don't understand 
why I have to give it the option "-o umask:000" in the mount 
command in order to be able to write to it. And another thing, if I 
give it "-o umask:jjj" or -jjj:jjj the command fails.

At least I can mount and unmount it now. These are just things I 
am trying to understand here.