On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 16:15 -0400, James Sumners wrote: > If this is your personal desktop, I don't seen any problem with > setting the permissions on the top level mount directory. I.E. if you > mount the disk to `/mnt/external` then `chown -R user.user > /mnt/external`. And make sure the 'user' option is specified in the > fstab. > This works fine. I prefer ext3 over fat any day.