> > > But I don´t want to write to that disk, only read. I tried changing the > > entry in my fstab to ´ro´ but it is of no use. I still see the same > > permission issue. Not sure why is this happening. > > Well, you can't be surprised that you can't chown, since the filesystem > is RO, and if the permissions are wrong, than you won't be able to > access it without sudo, which you say works fine. So what's left that > you don't understand?
The thing that is confusing me is that isn´t there a way to mount the external disk such that it is ´read-only´ to other users as well so that users, apart from root can read if not write to this disk? If the root can access so should the other user. -D
