On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 06:29:37PM -0800, Preston C. wrote: > I just wanted to see if I could mount the hard drive and access it as > user, which I couldn't. You can, and mount(8)¹ is very exhaustive. Assuming your HD is formatted with some kind of MS filesystem (fat/ntfs) you can tweak the mount options to set the ownership of the files. ¹ In short: man mount