FC3: Problems with mounting USB harddisk

Terry Polzin fox3ec208 at wideopenwest.com
Thu Dec 9 21:06:01 UTC 2004


On Thursday 09 December 2004 15:57, Stephan Groß wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to use my external USB harddisk under FC3. When I plug in the
> disk it is recognized by hald and the /etc/fstab is (correctly) modified
> (see attachment). But if an unpriviledged user mounts one of the ext3
> partitions he only has read access but no write access on it. Only root is
> alowed to read AND write to the partition. If the partition is formated as
> FAT the user mounting it has both read and write access to it. Short
> question: Is it possible to get read-write access for ext3 partitions and
> if yes, how must I adjust my config?
>
> Thank you for some advice.
>
> Regards,
> Stephan.


What are the permissions on

/media
/media/usbdisk





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