On Sat 26 Nov 2011 at 16:07:20 -0800, kei...@strucktower.com wrote: > 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'd be dissatisfied with myself if I to do this in order to write to a removable device. The device would only be available to one user, which may be what you want, but it seems a bit drastic to limit the system use in such a way. Granted you can replace 'uid=' etc with 'user', but in that case you had better have 'noauto' there too. And don't repartition too often, otherwise you will wear out the fstab file. For every USB stick plugged in you'll be becoming root, getting a UUID for each partition and editing fstab. It won't make a good impression on visitors who only want to show you the 10,000 photographs they took on a recent holiday - especially if the procedure doesn't immediately come to mind! You were unable to write to the drive because a partition had been mounted as root. The usual Debian way of dealing with that situation is to give users permission to mount removable devices by putting them in the plugdev group. It's a bit more involved with GNOME+gdm/gdm3 but the process is hidden from view and designed to be handled automatically. -- 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/20111127160732.GM3655@desktop
