[vox-tech] mounting an external drive

[Jennifer Stickel]

I have an external drive setup through a firewire on a Sony laptop.  I 
think I have one of the partitions on the drive setup at ext3....but how 
can I make sure that it it?  Also how can I mount it so that any user 
and not just root can write to it?  I have tried modifying my fstab file 
a few times this is what I have now (I can mount it as ext2 or ext3).  I 
can mount the drive as a user now but still can't write to it.

    LABEL=/                 /                       ext3   
    defaults        1 1
    LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3   
    defaults        1 2
    none                    /dev/pts                devpts 
    gid=5,mode=620  0 0
    none                    /proc                   proc   
    defaults        0 0
    none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs  
    defaults        0 0
    /dev/hda5               swap                    swap   
    defaults        0 0
    /dev/sda5               /Data1                  vfat   
    defaults,umask=0000 0 0
    /dev/sda6               /Data2                  vfat   
    defaults,umask=0000 0 0
    /dev/sda7               /LinuxExtra             ext2   
    users,rw,exec        0 0
    /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660
    noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
    /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto   
    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0


I would like to be able to mount this on boot and this fstab does that 
except that I can't write to it.  Thanks

Jennifer