Okay if you have added the drive and it is mounted then obviously you
formated, fdisked and made a filesystem otherwise you wouldn't have the new
drive mounted right?

Forget about swap it should already be there as this is an additional drive
and the system already had a swap drive.

I would guess that it is now the permissions on /hdd2 that is fouling you
up.

Jose can you as the admin write to /hdd2?

Try doing a ls -ld /hdd2.

If you don't understand how to read the output post it here.

Bill