External drive is being mounted as read-only

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/01/14 07:34, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> It didn't do any good. I can't write to the disk without superuser previleges. 
> Even if that would have made the disk writable I wouldn't want to use two 
> commands each time I hook up a usb disk. And it was working before anyways.

you are using a ext4 file system....

chown youruser:yourgroup /mnt/test

If you want to use a usb disk such that anyone that plugs it in can write to it then you need to use ntfs or another of the wonderful MS filesystems types.

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