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Re: Only root can write on USB disk

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On 2017-05-02, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2017 at 07:16:57PM +0430, Mostafa Shahverdy wrote:
>> I have a very annoying problem. I can't write to my usb drives (fat32,
>> ntfs, etc.) without root permissions. How can I fix this?
>
> Mount the file system with "-o uid=youruser" to have the files presented
> by the kernel as being "owned" by that user.
>
>

I don't understand that advice entirely.

Isn't there a difference between mounting the device as a regular user
and writing to the device as a regular user (which you might be
prevented from doing if the filesystem had root-only write permissions,
thus Brian's ls -l suggestion to eliminate that possibility)?


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Only root can write on USB disk Mostafa Shahverdy <mostafa@mostafa.info> - 2017-05-02 16:50 +0200
  Re: Only root can write on USB disk Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-02 18:10 +0200
    Re: Only root can write on USB disk Mostafa Shahverdy <mostafa@mostafa.info> - 2017-05-04 14:00 +0200
    Re: Only root can write on USB disk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-05 11:20 +0200
      Re: Only root can write on USB disk <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-05 11:40 +0200
        Re: Only root can write on USB disk Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-05-05 13:00 +0200
          Re: Only root can write on USB disk <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-05-05 13:40 +0200
  Re: Only root can write on USB disk Mostafa Shahverdy <mostafa@mostafa.info> - 2017-05-04 17:30 +0200
    Re: Only root can write on USB disk Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-05-04 18:20 +0200
    Re: Only root can write on USB disk Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-05-04 18:20 +0200
    Re: Only root can write on USB disk Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2017-05-04 20:10 +0200
    Re: Only root can write on USB disk Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-05-04 20:30 +0200
  Re: Only root can write on USB disk Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-05-05 15:00 +0200

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