External HDD, mount points and permissions
I've recently installed Fedora 5. Until now I've mostly used Slackware, so I'm used to things working a bit differently.
I have an external hard disk that I use to store my documents, music and photos. At the moment Fedora auto detects and mounts it as /media/disk. I, as a normal user, don't have write access to this location. Is there any way I can adjust fstab to put this disk somewhere like /mnt/sda1, like I would have on Slackware? Also, do you know how I can change the write permissions? does hal reset these when I reboot? |
fstab
you should be able to edit your /etc/fstab and you'll see which one is the drive you want.
Instead of DEFAULTS or some option like that, replace it with iocharset=utf8,umask=000 this will set the permissions to 777, or read/write/execute for everyone you will have to reboot though as far as i know, so the fstab gets taken into account |
great, all works well now.
It's strange, I've experimented (very briefly) with Ubuntu and OpenSuse and neither of them worked that easily. Cheers |
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