External HDD auto-mounted as root

[JD]

On 03/25/2011 08:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging
> it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to
> use ext4 (with gparted), it keeps getting auto-mounted as root both on
> F13 and F14. Any ideas what I could do about this?
>
Udev is the daemon that associated a drive name in /dev
with a physical drive. You have a choice of either using
uuids or make udev rules for each drive.