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I've been using Linux for a little over a year now, and I just switched to Arch. It's the best distro I have ever use, by far. So far, there has only been one thing I cannot figure out; when my hard drive mounts, it can only be written to by root. I tried messing around with fstab for a bit, and couldn't find anything that would solve said issue. Any advice?
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which harddrive? primary? Because if so - you're probably glossing over quite a few issues.
If it's a secondary harddrive (such as an external or similar), what filesystem is it? Either way - check out the GID and UID functions of the fstab file.
"Unix is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie)
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It's a logical drive on an extended partition. /dev/sda6, formatted in FAT32. The hard drive itself is the primary drive in my laptop. Any ideas?
Oh, if this is any help, here's the default fstab entry that Arch configured:
/dev/sda6 /media/HDD vfat defaults 0 1
Last edited by ssjlance (2008-08-20 01:12:26)
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"Unix is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity." (Dennis Ritchie)
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Ah, I'm sorry. I googled for a bit, but I wasn't mentioning the hard drive in my query. Thanks for the link.
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