You may be having trouble getting an answer because you have not
provided clear information about your problem.  Did you partition the disk
with, say, fdisk?  Did you build a filesystem on it with, say, mke2fs?
Did you set the protections on the filesystem with, say, chmod so that the
user is allowed to write on it?  If the answers to all these are yes,
maybe it would help to send the output of "fdisk -l".  Are you writing
with comands like "mv" or "cp", or are you writing with "dd"?  If it's
"dd", did you set the protections on /dev/<whatever it's called> to allow
the user to write to it?  What does the computer say is the problem when
you are "having problems to copy anything on it as user"?

Steven Yellin

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just got a box to use a hard disk as a external hard disk. The
> connection to the computer is USB.
>
> I am having problems to copy anything on it as user. I can mount it as
> user but I can not write on it as user.
>
> Does anyone know how to solve this problem?
>
> When I use
>
> fdisk -l
>
> the ouptut tells me that there is something wrong with the partition, but
> I can copy and write on the external hard disk without any problem. Is
> this some kind of bug if fdisk?
>
> Thank you in advance
>