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Old 03-09-2012, 04:56 AM   #1
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Automounted USB drive is owned by root and not writable


Hi,

I've created an ext3 parition on a USB flash drive using:

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mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1
I then plug the drive in and it gets mounted to /media automatically but for some reason has the following privileges so I can't write to it as a normal user:

Code:
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar  9 10:18 CZILLA_IMAGES
Does anyone know how to get it to mount so that I can write to it as a normal user?

Thanks.
 
Old 03-09-2012, 06:13 AM   #2
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Hi eponymous,

This would be the normal behavior. If this pen drive is not permanent then you would need pmount. More information here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(Unix)
Hope this helps.
 
Old 03-09-2012, 06:25 AM   #3
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Hi eponymous,

This would be the normal behavior. If this pen drive is not permanent then you would need pmount. More information here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_(Unix)
Hope this helps.
Hmm if this is true then why is it when I plug in a pendrive which is NTFS or FAT32 it works fine?
 
Old 03-12-2012, 12:12 AM   #4
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An excellent point
Had exactly the same problem myself the other day...
 
  


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