Make external hard drive accessible to all users

[Pasha R]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 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.
>

All external drives I use formatted as NTFS - this provides
compatibility with windows boxes and allows me to store large files.
Also, I'm the only user of the computer, so, multi-seat security is
irrelevant to me.