On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Tim <ignored_mail...@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 23:25 +0300, Pasha R wrote: >> F17 introduced a change to how external drives are mounted. They are >> mounted now exclusively to a logged on user. This is somewhat >> inconvenient, because iso images stored on external drive is now >> inaccessible to virtual machines. Is it possible to make drives >> accessible to everyone? > > You didn't say what filing system you were using on that drive. If it's > a foreign one, that doesn't have user IDs on it as used by Fedora, then > I'd expect it to be mounted as you say. If it's a native one, then I'd > expect it to be mounted with the usual user & group ownerships. For > multiuser external drives, my usual approach was to make sub-directories > in it that were owned by users on the system, or a shared sub-directory, > but not to use the root of the drive. >
All external drives I use formatted as NTFS - this provides compatibility with windows boxes and allows me to store large files. Also, I'm the only user of the computer, so, multi-seat security is irrelevant to me. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
