On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 7:46 AM, Christoph Baumhardt <xt4...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I had problems a while ago with several USB sticks on Debian Jessie. For all > non-root users they were automounted read-only. But there was no way of > writing something onto the sticks for a non-privileged user. Fiddling around > with user permissions and such didn't help. The simple solution finally was > to comment out the following line in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sdb1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > After commenting out this line all normal users could write to all USB > sticks, just as you would expect it to work. Someone suggested that the > fstab entry existed in the first place because I had installed Jessie from a > USB stick as root, but I can't judge that.
Thanks you! I'd puzzled over that for quite a while, but never been sufficiently bothered to seek out a solution (as I can always use sudo or become root to do what needed to be done). Once the offending line is commented out (in my case, 2 such lines, one assigning /dev/sdc1 to /media/usb0, the other assigning /dev/sdc2 to /media/usb1) my USB stick mounted to /media/<user>/USB DISK/ and is owned by me (where <user> is my username). So, thanks again. > If you look in the forums, many people face the same problem - they can > read, but not write to a USB stick plugged in. The same solution as above > works for them. Examples: > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=119254 > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=119061 > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=119423 > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=107470 > > So I have two questions now: > > 1. Is it necessary/a good thing that in a standard Debian installation this > /etc/fstab USB entry appears? It is certainly not a good thing after installation, as it obviously breaks expected behavior. > 2. Can developers or maintainers do something about this issue, so that > novice users don't experience the same problems as I and several others did? > I think being able to write to an USB stick should work out of the box for a > non-root user. Perhaps there are ways to not let the fstab entry appear at > all if it isn't necessary or remove it after installation. I agree. Thanks again for the information. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cajvvksoodqnbzi7uqau1qffsh_mnxdfnldqvdc6v-4mx0hm...@mail.gmail.com
