I am having a problem mounting my USB Thumb drive. If the drive is in USB port when I boot my laptop. Everything works as it should. I can right click on the Gnome desktop and it shows up as sda1 which will be mounted in /media/sda1 with my user id as the owner. However, If I boot my laptop then plug the thumb drive in, hot plug will recognize it and add the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab. But it does not show up when I right click on the desktop. I can manually mount it using this command. mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/cstuettg/mnt/usb The problem however, is that I have to su to mount it and then it shows up as owned by root, which means I can only read from it. I can not write to it or delete any files from it. Anyone know how I can mount the thumb drive after I have booted so my user account can have full access?