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I'm having a problem writing to usb devices on my eeepc. I have arch installed on my desktop with gnome and have no problems with this. On my eeepc I use xfce4 and sometimes fluxbox. I can mount usb devices without any trouble but the permissions on the usb devices are read only unless I'm root. I set myself to the storage group but still can't figure it out. I can mount individual devices as root and manually set their permission so anyone can read/write but it only works on each individual device. Is there a way I can give myself permission to write on any removable media I attach?
Last edited by ShatteredVision (2009-12-08 08:13:42)
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If you use the .xinitrc file make sure you have your window managers/DE setup like:
exec ck-launch-session xfce4-sessionand
exec ck-launch-session startfluxboxLast edited by anonymous_user (2009-12-08 00:53:38)
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If you use the .xinitrc file make sure you have your window managers/DE setup like:
exec ck-launch-session xfce4-sessionand
exec ck-launch-session startfluxbox
This is how I have them set up. It lets me mount the usb devices just not write to them. I have a sd card I leave in my eeepc as like a second harddisk to keep all my documents. This way I dont write too much to the ssd. For whatever reason I can look in the folders I just can't add anything new to them unless I'm root. I'm just not very familiar with how arch is set up to manage permissions. Is there a config file I could edit?
thanks for the speedy reply.
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Try these instructions:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 46#p653946
And the next time you mount a usb device check if you have write permissions.
Otherwise I would read more about HAL on the wiki:
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Thanks this helped a lot. Strange thing happened. I tried some other usb keys and sd cards and they all mount with me as the owner. Only the one card I was using is mounting with the owner as root. Seems weird only this one card does that. Any idea how I can change this cards ownership? or any idea why only this card does it?
Thanks again. You have been really helpful. I was told Arch had a great community. I'm glad to now be a part of it.
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Mount the USB device and run this as root:
chown -R username:username /media/yourusbdeviceJust replace "username" and "yourusbdevice" with the correct values.
Last edited by anonymous_user (2009-12-08 02:03:24)
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Problem solved. Thanks again for the help. Not sure how to mark this topic as solved though. New to the forum also.
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You just need to edit your first post and add [Solved] to the thread title.
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