usb0 Fat32 drive owned by root - read only

[rhwaugh]

Hello, I am new to LINUX so please excuse my ignorance - I'm only being so forward as to post because I am trying to configure a PI as a Christmas Present and am running out of time! (And if you are wondering, I'm going with the Alpha/Frodo version because it has better Karaoke support.)

I am using Alpha 3 and the attached fat32 usb drive is owned by root:root which, as I understand it, means that the xbian user cannot write to it. I noticed this when trying to run the XBMC backup settings addon targeted at the usb drive. The xbmc log file returns an error when trying to make directories. It is the same for the xbian user on ssh.

I am guessing that this is an oversight and not the desired default behavior?

Apologies if this is already a known issue - I did spend an age trying to find an xbian reference to the problem, but couldn't see anything. There's obviously advice out there in the ether about how to mount drives, but if I attempt my own fix it won't last past the next install.

Rachel