Re: External drive is being mounted as read-only

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On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/01/14 15:08, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> What do you mean?
>>>
>>> If you do
>>>
>>> sudo touch /run/media/donnie/storejet/x
>>>
>>> what do you get?
>> That works fine that will write file x with root:root
>
> Yes....  Which *PROVES* it is mounted RW....
>
>>
>> I was checking dmesg. There are some interesting errors and remounting
>> filesystem read-only
>>
>
> Now, do this....
>
> sudo chmod 1777 /run/media/donnie/storejet
>
> And then, without sudo.....
>
> touch y
>
> Don't use "touch x" as that is owned by root.
>
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Yes, the disk is being mounted as RW but not as a regular user.

On your system when mounting ext4 usb-storage through a graphical file
manager like Dolphin or Nautilus is it mounted under root:root user?

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