External drive is being mounted as read-only

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/01/14 16:13, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> 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.
>

Once you chown on the file system you never have to do it again.  I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill.

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