On 29 August 2016 at 20:20, Alan E. Davis <lngn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I tried changing permissions of /media. Not solved. > > an NTFS partition was not mountable unless dismounted from the automatic > mount point; as far as I can see, this is not the case for vfat or ext4 > partitions. > > I did copy a udev rule for setting permissions---something above my level > of understanding, however. If anything, the situation was worse. > > It has been very frustrating to google for 2 hours on this probably very > simple problem. I think the solution is just to mount them manually. > Still, it would be helpful to automount them, or mount via fstab. I have > not had success mouting by label, and one does not know in advance whether > some usb flash drive might preempt these drive designations. > > BTW I am pleased to be running a Debian system again after some years. It > took a good deal of work, though, to get it set up on an iMac with a > broadcom wifi adaptor! > > What I do (if this is an external disk I will be using regularly) is to specify it in /etc/fstab e.g.:
UUID=c8cb3c35-6b19-40e2-be34-e6e3bde03fa4 /media/1tb_klein ext4 user,rw,noauto 0 0 the 'user' option allow me then to mount it like this: mount /media/1tb_klein and I can read/write there. If after it is mounted there is a problem with ownership, I change it after the device was mounted: chown js.js /media/1tb_klein By the way the packages pmount is useful to mount hogpluggable devices as user. If the device is for instance /dev/sdb1 and you do as user pmount /dev/sdb1 it will create /media/sdb1 and mount the device there. Use pumount /dev/sdb1 to unmount. Regards Johann -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:3)
