External drive is being mounted as read-only

[Joe Zeff]

On 09/01/2014 07:04 AM, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
> I haven't had time to look into it myself but more I read about ext4
> your tryst explaining me earlier becomes more clear that permissions
> persist with the filesystem. Now that I think more about it one
> possibility is that I use same username across systems which might
> have made it possible to mount with RW without superuser privileges.

My understanding is that the numerical UID and GID are what matters; the 
names are just there for convenience.