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i am useing suse 9.3 and all my usb drives "flash and hdd" are automatically mounted in /media/usb*" and only root has permisson to those drives can i add users to the permissions?
i tryed editing the fstab for the "usbfs" line here is what it looks like
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs user,ro,umask=002 0 0
the ro, is there cause it is a ntfs drive "dual booting" i will change to fat once i can back up all the data.
i also tryed to change the permissions in /media but still no luck
ok that worked but can someone explain to me why i can go into my ntfs partion "dual boot" as a user but i cant go into my externals formated as ntfs. it dosent make sense.
The difference is that external drives are mounted through hotplug/subfs and internal through /etc/fstab. The hotplug/subfs scripts creates the mountpoints with insufficient rights (if this is a bug or for a reason, I don't know).
so can i not use hotplug? when i used slackware i had to manually add a line in the fstab and mount it manually. i tried this and it will mount it until i unplug it. when i plug it back in hotplug wants to re-mount it in the /media/usb* "the * is if i have more than one usb drive in " so i guess my question can i turn off hotplug or edit the permissions in hotplug
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