I've been puzzling over this one... it has to be simple/obvious, but I'm having a senior moment and can't seem to find the "right" way to make this work. The situation is, a new Linux user has a new openSUSE 12.1 x86_64 install and has updated it to KDE4.8.4. No other tweaks etc., and a default software lineup (other than the KDE4 update). He has an external 1 TB USB drive. He used YaST > Partioner to reformat the drive as ext4. This all went fine. Unplug the drive and plug it back in and it's automounted as expected... .except, $USER cannot write to the disk, only root has write permissions. Now on my own aged system I don't run into that issue.... but I can't remember if I changed something or what needs to be changed. I could say.. just open up a terminal and change the permissions on the mount point then plug in the drive (but that only works around the problem for that one drive)... or manually mount the drive with a different mask... but neither of these "solutions" should be necessary in a default setup should they? So... is there a configuration issue here? Or something else? What is the correct way for this to be handled? C. -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.8.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org