Resolved: Can't write to external usb drive as normal user despite efforts

[keitho@strucktower.com]

Thanks to Camaleon, John Lindsay, and Chris Brennan for responding.

This statement put into my /etc/fstab seems to have worked, and auto mount
as well:

UUID=9419-5112	/usb	vfat	uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,umask=0000 0 0

The UUID is obtained via blkid, the uid and gid are for my keith account.

I still haven't found a good explanation for the umask option- nothing in
man pages under "umask", very little under pam_umask or pam ...

Keith

> On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:47:12 -0800, keitho wrote:
>
>> I have an external usb drive on which I have a fat32 formatted
>> partition. I can't figure out how to mount it so that I can write to it
>> as a normal user.
>
> (...)
>
> You need to set the right perms for the mounted partition, either
> manually or by letting the automounter facility (if there is any
> available) does its job, for example:
>
> mount -t vfat -o uid=keith,gid=keith,utf8,umask=0000 /dev/sda4 /usb
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
>