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.
Here's what I have tried (with no fstab entry): keith@eve:~$ sudo mount /dev/sdb4 -t vfat /usb keith@eve:~$ mount [snip] /dev/sdb4 on /usb type vfat (rw) keith@eve:~$ touch /usb/test touch: cannot touch `/usb/test': Permission denied keith@eve:~$ ls -al /usb total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 . drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Nov 22 22:13 .. keith@eve:~$ sudo chown keith:keith /usb chown: changing ownership of `/usb': Operation not permitted keith@eve:~$ sudo chmod 750 /usb keith@eve:~$ ls -al /usb total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 . drwxr-xr-x 26 root root 4096 Nov 22 22:13 .. keith@eve:~$ ls -al /bin/mount -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 84944 Aug 3 10:02 /bin/mount keith@eve:~$ groups keith root sudo audio I have also tried this with various different fstab lines to no avail. There is a relevant discussion of this kind of problem here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/mount-a-500gb-usb-hard-disk-permission-issues-609218/ Can someone illuminate me on how to mount this external usb drive so that I can write to it as a normal user? Reading through the man pages hasn't helped me yet on this problem. Thanks, keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/00d5eab73125d0b3e3640d29a836b35e.squir...@webmail.strucktower.com
