Re: Make external hard drive accessible to all users

Fri Jul 13 21:37:08 UTC 2012

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From: "Rick Stevens" <ricks at alldigital.com>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Make external hard drive accessible to all users
Date: Fri, Jul 13, 2012 4:39 pm

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
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