> But I don´t want to write to that disk, only read. I tried changing the
> entry in my fstab to ´ro´ but it is of no use. I still see the same
> permission issue. Not sure why is this happening.
is RO, and if the permissions are wrong, than you won't be able to
access it without sudo, which you say works fine. So what's left that
you don't understand?
The thing that is confusing me is that isn´t there a way to mount the external disk such that it is ´read-only´ to other users as well so that users, apart from root can read if not write to this disk? If the root can access so should the other user.
-D