Aron Smith wrote:
I have a USB external HDD but I can only read write to it as root is there a
way to set this drive so that the user can copy to/from this drive?
Using drakconf you can change the mount options so that the device can
be mounted by normal users. Also, while the drive is unmounted, change
the permissions on the device and the mount point.
For example, if you mount the drive in /mnt/usb1 , chmod 777 /mnt/usb1
and if the device is /dev/sda1, chmod 666 /dev/sda1.
Also, once the drive is mounted, run something like this as root:
find /mnt/usb1 -type d -print | xargs chmod 777
if you want to give all users full read, write and execute permissions
in all directories on the device.
cheers
Duncan
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