-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-06-17 18:58, C wrote:
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
No, mount the drive then change the permissions of the mount point. However, as the /media/* mount points are temporary, you have two solutions:
Aha.. but.. as I discovered with a little tinkering (which reminded me what I did so very long ago) you can plug in the ext4 formatted USB drive, do a chown -R $USER:$GROUP /media/USBLabel and it will remember that ownership for next time the device is connected to that computer. You can unmount and remount and it'll retain the tweaked permissions.
Ahá! That's must be a new feature. Nice.
So, in effect... it's solved I guess... the solution was what I thought... either create a directory on the drive and assign rights, or change the ownership of the mount point.
After it is mounted, yes.
Another alternative? Set the group to a common group for root and $USER for these actions?
Well, if it remembers the group... that is, if they did that feature, I don't know.
a) Mount to a fixed point in /mnt via fstab, and change the permissions of that path after mounting
I wanted to avoid this. New user... getting him to futz in his fstab is not a good idea... he wants to try out Linux, but the connection to this new (to him) OS is tenuous at best.... several times this weekend he's been milliseconds from wiping it all and installing Windows due to high levels of frustration over little things... like formatting a drive and then discovering he cannot write to it without some silly tweaking. He expected to be able to write to the drive after formatting the exact same as he can from Windows or OSX
Well, Linux is not easy at first. It needs time to get used to, specially if one is used to Windows. To me, Windows is not that easy either. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk/eXrAACgkQIvFNjefEBxpowQCeImkf5n3ELO+TrZwqafHCIOGv yFYAoLa8z2vTJK8r4SMgFlc6+O0lKa1K =Y9jw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org