I want to be able to read-write to one of my ext3 partitions as an ordinary user as I can to the home partition and the FAT32 partitions. I am running Kubuntu Edgy which uses UUIDs in /etc/fstab which I haven't got the hang of yet (for everything except floppies and CDROMs). e.g. # /dev/hdd2 UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx /media/hdd2 ext3 defaults 0 2 # /dev/hdd1 UUID=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxx /media/hddboot ext3 defaults 0 2 and for the FAT32 partitions: # /dev/hdb1 UUID=xxxx-xxxx /media/win-c vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hdb5 UUID=xxxx-xxxx /media/win-data vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0 # /dev/hda7 The umask option seems to be available only on FAT32 partitions and just adding user or users to the ext3 options doesn't do the trick. I have Googled and looked at the Edgy manual but can't find anything that quite explains how to do it in the approved way - not one that I can understand anyway. Can somebody point me to the right way of doing this? TIA Rod