Make external hard drive accessible to all users

[Tim]

On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 23:25 +0300, Pasha R wrote:
> 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?

You didn't say what filing system you were using on that drive.  If it's
a foreign one, that doesn't have user IDs on it as used by Fedora, then
I'd expect it to be mounted as you say.  If it's a native one, then I'd
expect it to be mounted with the usual user & group ownerships.  For
multiuser external drives, my usual approach was to make sub-directories
in it that were owned by users on the system, or a shared sub-directory,
but not to use the root of the drive.

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