Hi All, Since I installed Lenny from scratch a while ago, I have problems accessing my external usb hd. It is plugged in to a usb port permanently, but I only turn on the power if I need to access it (I use it for backup).
As I turn on the power, it reports as owned by root, but when still on Etch, I formatted it like this: # umount /dev/sde # mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -j -m 1 -L Maxtor -T largefile -v /dev/sde # tune2fs -c -1 /dev/sde # chown manon:manon /media/Maxtor I never had any problem like this with Etch, but now, even after repeatedly changing ownership to manon, it still reports root as owner when I turn the power on again. Sometimes it even appears to be completely empty after I did # chown manon:manon /media/Maxtor and I cannot access any data at all anymore. I also tried: '# chown manon:manon /dev/sde' but that didn't help either. Any ideas what could cause this problem and how to solve it? Thanks in advance, Manon. Linux debian 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Mar 26 01:08:11 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux # less /media/.hal-mtab /dev/sde 1000 0 ext3 nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,data=ordered /media/Maxtor # dumpe2fs /dev/sde dumpe2fs 1.41.3 (12-Oct-2008) Filesystem volume name: Maxtor Last mounted on: <not available> Filesystem UUID: 99b7fdbd-5d8e-45bf-a1ec-74b774a39fc9 Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53 Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic) Filesystem features: has_journal resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery sparse_super large_file Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash Default mount options: (none) Filesystem state: clean Errors behavior: Continue Filesystem OS type: Linux Inode count: 610560 Block count: 156282966 Reserved block count: 1562829 Free blocks: 59277244 Free inodes: 603706 First block: 0 Block size: 4096 Fragment size: 4096 Reserved GDT blocks: 986 Blocks per group: 32768 Fragments per group: 32768 Inodes per group: 128 Inode blocks per group: 4 Filesystem created: Sun Nov 16 18:35:36 2008 Last mount time: Wed May 13 18:15:07 2009 Last write time: Wed May 13 18:15:07 2009 Mount count: 54 Maximum mount count: 28 Last checked: Sun Nov 16 18:35:36 2008 Check interval: 15552000 (6 months) Next check after: Fri May 15 19:35:36 2009 Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root) Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root) First inode: 11 Inode size: 128 Journal inode: 8 Default directory hash: tea Directory Hash Seed: 762114b0-1dbb-4677-8b23-934e5a2b0fe3 Journal backup: inode blocks Journal size: 128M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org