[OT?] question about external hd

["Germán A. Racca"]

On 02/06/2013 04:41 PM, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On 02/06/2013 06:33 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>>> Should I be root to be
>>> able to create/remove files/folder in my external hd??
>>
>> No.  Create a scratch dir on the hd (as root) and do
>>
>> chmod 1777 <mydir>
>>
>> This will create a directory that any user can write to.
>
> Or you could chown the root directory of the external drive's file
> system to the user that normally mounts it (this is what I do with most
> of my external storage).
>
> Regards,
> Bryn.
>

Thanks Bryn, this is even better! I did:

# chown german.german SKYTUX/

and this works fine, I can create/delete files/folders all over my hd 
now without restrictions :)

All the best,
Germán.

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Germán A. Racca
Fedora Package Maintainer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Skytux