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trann

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Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 32

[SOLVED]External HD: Auto-mount in read-only and only root can access

So I followed the advice in http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 88#p583088 regarding using udev to auto-mount my external 60gb harddrive, and it works.  The only problem is, it is being mounted read-only and I can only view the contents via sudo or as the superuser.

Can anyone guide me in the right direction I need to go to get this changed?  I have already once tried to recursively chown everything on the harddrive, but that didn't seem to work.  The syntax I used from that above article specifies "rw" as one of the options for the mount command, so I am stumped as to why this happened.

Thanks

Last edited by trann (2009-11-13 16:24:36)

anonymous_user

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Registered: 2009-08-28

Posts: 3,059

Re: [SOLVED]External HD: Auto-mount in read-only and only root can access

Did you add the drive to your fstab file?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab

Wattanut

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From: London

Registered: 2009-01-29

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED]External HD: Auto-mount in read-only and only root can access

Have you installed ntfs-3g?

I think I've had that problem before.

trann

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Registered: 2009-10-29

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED]External HD: Auto-mount in read-only and only root can access

Have you installed ntfs-3g?

I think I've had that problem before.

WoW, perfect solution.  This is why I love this distro. 

martz

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Registered: 2010-10-05

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED]External HD: Auto-mount in read-only and only root can access

Have you installed ntfs-3g?

I think I've had that problem before.

Worked for me, too. Thanks