Glenn Stuart Morrissey wrote:
When I log on linux, my /dev/sda1 drive is mounted, fdrom fstab:
# /dev/sda1 UUID=b52f4246-04ea-4d35-b3b9-37a316709f81 /media/Data ext3 user,relatime,errors=continue-ro 0 2
errors=continue-ro is a typo. It should either be errors=continue OR errors=remount-ro. You can remove the entire errors=* bit if you like. This typo is probably causing the mount to fail on system startup, which is why you need to mount it manually.
I then change the permission on the drive:
glenn(a)glenn-amd1:/media$ sudo chown -R glenn /media/Data
If the contents of /media/Data aren't maintaining permissions across reboot, then something very screwy is up. I suggest you fix your fstab and then either try a reboot or a clean remount, eg, sudo umount /media/disk; mount /media/disk (the latter should NOT have sudo in front of it). If you're still having permission problems after that, can you please verify that the filesystem in question is in fact an ext3 filesystem. If it's something else, such as vfat / fat32 etc, then changing permissions will not work.