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 :) -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201304072055.00686.mar...@lichtvoll.de
