External drive is being mounted as read-only

[Sudhir Khanger]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Sudhir Khanger <sudhir at sudhirkhanger.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 1:11 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>> Yes...  UNTIL I "fix" it with using the chown command as I've now said multiple times.
>
>
> I will have to try other distribution. I don't remember doing anything
> like that when mounting through graphical means. I was talking to some
> folks at #archlinux and they also said when mounting through graphical
> means no chowning is required even for ext4 filesystem. I will have to
> try that myself.

Also I remember that an ext4 disk would mount as $USER:users on Arch
Linux or  $USER: $USER on something like Ubuntu. You didn't have to
chown the folder you mount to.

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