Re: External hard disk mounted as root only
Am Sonntag, 7. April 2013 schrieb Adriano Vilela Barbosa:
> > Am Sonntag 07.04.2013, 08:20:27 schrieb Adriano Vilela Barbosa:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I'm having a mounting problem with an external USB disk I just
> > > bought. I googled this up a lot, but couldn't really find a
> > > solution.
> >
> > Which file systems do you use for the HD and jump drive (whatever that
> > is)? When they are mounted, could you just execute mount and post the
> > relevant parts of the output?
> >
> > --Reinhold
>
> Ok, I think I figured this out. Apparently fat32 drives are mounted as
> owned by whoever mounts them because fat32 don't have permissions. On
> the other hand, for file systems who do have permissions (such as the
> ones on my external USB drive), it looks like being owned by root is
> the normal behavior. What I did was to create a folder within them as
> root, and then I changed the ownership of the folder to my user. Now I
> can write to that folder, even across mounts/unmounts. This worked for
> both partitions.
You can also chown the mount point, aka the root of the filesystem, to make
the whole filesystem accessible to the user. While mounted of course :)
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