Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive
On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <john.andrew.schmidt@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to
> >> the plugdev group.
> >
> > feisty@feisty-laptop:~$ groups
> > feisty adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev
> > lpadmin powerdev admin
>
> Since this is a Feisty Fawn box, and Ubuntu doesn't do everything
> the same way that Debian does, it might behoove you to ask these
> questions on the Ubuntu Forums.
I will. I find that technical knowledge is often replaced by MS
bashing there, but I'll take my chances.
> Anyway, why do you have an entry for it in /etc/fstab? The Big
> Desktops will automount any USB drive you plug in.
Because HAL wasn't automounting it, and I could not mount it
read/write for users. Googling the problem led me to believe that I
needed an fstab entry. Indeed, I still believe that I do, otherwise it
gets mounted with the wrong encoding and Hebrew filenames show up as
??? or gibberish.
Dotan Cohen
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