I really appreciate all the discussion. I can summarize. The task: - I want to automount a SATA disk in a hot swap removable drive bay. - The disk can be any format: ext4, vfat, ntfs - I would prefer to use the systemd automount facility where I place the needed information in /etc/hosts. - The actions are to be performed by a normal user without root permissions. The disk should be mounted as the result of something like: cd /backup - The user who mounted the disk should have write access to the top level directory. This is non-negotiable. Without this, the user needs root permissions to change the top level directory permissions. What does work: - systemd arranges for the disk to be automounted. - When the user access the disk mount point, the disk is mounted. - It is working for all file system types. The problem: - The directory on which the disk is mounted is not always writable by the user who initiated the mount. - Adding a DirectoryMode= to a systemd override file (it cannot be set in /etc/fstab) gets the option added to the automount unit file for this file system. However, the mount directory does not have these permissions when the disk is automounted. Status: I have been testing with ext4. It was said that if I mount the file system, change the permissions of the mount point (i.e., the top level directory), these permissions would be used on subsequent mounts. I do not see that this is happening. The file system top level permissions are not what I expect. This is on an up-to-date Leap 42.3 system. -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org