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I have an external hard drive for my laptop that I am able to mount with the sda1 device. However, after I mount it, I can't access it from my regular user account.
Do I have to adjust the permissions somehow or mount it differently?
Well, you didn't say which filesystem you are using, but I'm going to guess it's FAT32, as with any linux filesystem, it would be just like any other drive.
You'll want to look into the umask= mount option. umask=000 will give all users full rw access (assuming it is mounted rw) to the drive.
Originally posted by fssengg i think not all distos support ntfs file system currently .first check ur distibution support it.
check the proc/modules list
He said he can mount it, but a normal user can't read it.
No problem. I'm assuming this is a single user system, but if it does have multiple users, you need to be aware that ALL users will now have access. There are uid= and gid= options, IIRC, that would be able to deal with that. On a single user system, I wouldn't worry about it.
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