Mounting external media

i.mehrzad · 2009-12-30 09:46:40

The external media I mount, is made accessible to me, but the owner is root.

Deleting files from external media is not permitted by me. Even can't delete, as it prompts of a read only file system. Can someone please help.

Thanking you,
Mehrzad

sHyLoCk · 2009-12-30 10:13:04

What DE/WM are you using? Do you mount it manually or using fstab?

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i.mehrzad · 2009-12-30 15:49:49

I use Gnome.

I don't use either of the two methods. Simply plug in my external, thinking hal daemon will do the rest. Thought it'd work like Ubuntu. Can you guide me through the process.

Dethredic · 2009-12-30 16:33:29

try unmounting it with nautilus or thunar or w/e file manager you use. then mount it with something like this:

mkdir /mnt/externalmedia
mount /dev/sdX -w /mnt/externalmedia

Raffles10 · 2009-12-30 22:14:19

USB or optical ?

I had trouble mounting optical media until I commented their entries in fstab, as described in the hal wiki.

i.mehrzad · 2009-12-31 04:27:29

I am referring to a usb drive.

Is there a way to automatically do it using fstab. I though hal was the daemon which was responsible for all this.

Raffles10 · 2009-12-31 21:16:37

Have you added your username to the storage group ?

gpasswd -a username storage

Lich · 2009-12-31 21:55:58

I just use thunar + thunar-volman + a PolicyKit config crafted for my user.

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h_al · 2010-01-01 09:43:22

I have the same problem. I've been looking for a solution 3 days now with no luck.

sHyLoCk · 2010-01-01 11:17:37

Lich wrote:

I just use thunar + thunar-volman + a PolicyKit config crafted for my user.

That's what I do. And it works. I guess they haven't put hal in daemon's array or gnome is just messing with them. I'm sure there are many "Arch" gnome users here who can help OP.

h_al · 2010-01-01 11:41:43

I do have hal in daemon's list.

i.mehrzad · 2010-01-02 03:51:38

I've got my hal in my daemons list as well.

sHyLoCk · 2010-01-02 03:55:16

Did you try all these methods mentioned?

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