2009/4/28 mac <ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk>: > Neil Greenwood wrote: >> Thanks mac. >> >> I was trying to avoid having to run a command every time I plug the >> drive in though. > > > I don't have to run it every time. Once assigned to the labelled drive, > the permissions are persistent. I'm looking at one of mine now, that I > just plugged in. It has mounted as if owned by the logged-in user on > this machine. (That's why I think you do have to 'sudo chown -R' the > drive to the current user - and it will then be owned by $USER). The > folder permissions are 755; files look to be 644, unless otherwise > specified.
Ah! Maybe I should have tried it, rather than just expecting it to fail next time I plugged it in. Thanks for the feedback. I'll give it a go when I've finished upgrading... > (It's very useful to give the drive a label, so that it's always > referred to by the same name, and you aren't messing about with > different /dev names.) I already do this, at least with most of my removable drives. > Mine (several of them) just plug in and work, irrespective of who's the > logged-in user. Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
