I have an ext3 partition that I can't write to using a normal user. My line from fstab look like this: /dev/sda2 /media/storage ext3 defaults,users 0 0 I did chown and chmod -R +rw, no effect. This might be a basic linux thing, but until recently my only ext3 partition was the root one so I never encounter this problem, now I decided to convert my whole harddrive into ext3, but I can write to it only as root. Thank you, Claudiu.