Make external hard drive accessible to all users

[Veli-Pekka Kestilä]

On 13.7.2012 23:39, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On 07/13/2012 01:25 PM, Pasha R issued this missive::
>> F17 introduced a change to how external drives are mounted. They are
>> mounted now exclusively to a logged on user. This is somewhat
>> inconvenient, because iso images stored on external drive is now
>> inaccessible to virtual machines. Is it possible to make drives
>> accessible to everyone?
>
> Add the mount to /etc/fstab and make sure the "auto" option is included.
> Something like:
>
>     /path/to/device    /mountpoint    ext4      defaults,auto 0 0
>
I would use UUID as the device identifier so that if device name changes 
it will still mount it correctly.

blkid /dev/sda1 will get you the uuid and then add:

UUID=YOUR-UID         /mountpoint    ext4      defaults,auto     0 0

-vpk