<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Thank you for the advice. I found a solution to this problem by applying the following commands <pre>sudo chown -R root:users /home/ben2/Public/shares sudo chmod -R ug=rwx,o=rx /home/ben2/Public/shares And the line I added to /etc/fstab looks like /dev/sdb5/ /home/ben2/Public/shares ext4 auto noatime 0 0 Everything is good, Have a nice weekend </pre> <div class="moz-forward-container"> -------- Original Message -------- <table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Subject: </th> <td>Adding secondary hard drive to desktop</td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th> <td>Sun, 03 Feb 2013 14:10:19 -0500</td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th> <td>Ben Chavez <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ebcha1974@hotmail.com"><ebcha1974@hotmail.com></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">To: </th> <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:linux-user@egr.msu.edu">linux-user@egr.msu.edu</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> O.k time to call for help again. I just added a secondary hard drive to my desktop running Ubuntu 12.04 and I would like to mount the drive a boot time I modified /etc/fstab and the drive is mounted but for some reason I cant get control over the content, I cant modify files or create directories in it. This is the line I added UUID=4f07995e-21bb-468d-8aaa-282510936bc3 /home/ben2/Public/shares ext4 defaults 0 0 I had prebiously add it with the following syntax /dev/sdb5/ /home/ben2/Public/shares ext4 auto noatime 0 0 with the two lines the drive is mounted at boot time but it doesn't allow me add content to it. I will appreciate all advice. Thank you </div> </body> </html>