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Mount USB drive with write permissions for everyone or specific user
I know there are similar questions but I get some specific problem I can't overcome.
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HDD split into two partitions. /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2. sdb1 is NTFS and I don't need it. I need sdb2 ...
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External USB hard drive formatted E2fs/E3fs permissions
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 on a laptop computer. I have an external USB disk drive formatted E2fs/E3fs by another linux system (specifically a Linksys NSLU2 running stock Linksys firmware). From the ...
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What kind of FileSystem do you recommend for USB Flash Drive?
This is a problem I'm having when using Ubuntu: I have two computers that have Ubuntu installed on them (comp1 and comp2). I create a document with Ubuntu on comp1 and then copy the file onto a FAT ...
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USB Device first mounted as root, then by user
When I connect my Kindle, it shows up as an usb0 media, which I can read but not write (owner = root).
However, if I do sudo umount /media/usb0, usb0 gets unmounted and a Kindle media gets mounted ...
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Access to external usb hard drive mounted in KDE other user
Before kubuntu 12.10 i had Gentoo and in KDE's plugged devices widget i mounted devices and them was accessible by other user in other KDE sessions. But in kubuntu external hdd mounted with ownership ...
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Can't mount UBS flash drives or my CD/DVD drives
How can I fix the permissions to get rid of the following error and mount my USB and internal CD/DVD drive:
Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to `/media/bret' failed: Operation not supported
These ...
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Permissions lost when usb mounting Toshiba 500GB portable hd [closed]
When plugging Toshiba 500gb portable hd into USB on Ubuntu 10.04 laptop permissions are all good. Same drive plugged usb on 10.10 desktop shows permissions of 700 for all directories and 600 for all ...
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How can I change permissions on external drives?
I wanted to change permissions on my external drives that are automounted however I have tried by sudo nautilus and then going to gui and permissions and changing it however it does not let me.
I ran ...
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How do I mount USB drives as given user automatically?
How do I get my USB drive to auto-mount as owned by 'me' rather than by whomever is logged in to the computer screen at the time? Often I SSH into my computer while someone else is using it, and so ...
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mount -o rw,<user> /dev/src1 /media/<mount-name> not working
I have burned the ubuntu iso distribution on my flash drive and I boot into ubuntu from the flash USB drive. Note that I am using the option 'Try without installing ubuntu' while booting.
The problem ...
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Nautilus automount - controlling GID/UID/mode bits
How do I set GID/UID and mode bits assigned to the directory in /media, to which my USB drive is auto-mounted when I plug it in (i.e. to the directory, which represents the drive itself, e.g. ...
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File Permissions on files copied from USB do not match File Permissions of files I create in Ubuntu
When I create a file in Ubuntu, it creates with only read/write permissions for the owner. But if I copy a file from a fat32 USB drive, the file permissions give read/executable powers to Owner,Group ...
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Can't set permissions for USB drives?
I'm trying to set permissions for folders on USB drives that I've mounted with Nautilus, but when I change the permission, it just changes right back again. No error message or any other explanation. ...
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How do I set executable permissions on a removable drive?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 and using a usb drive but I'm finding that I can't chmod any programs on the drive to +x. It is being auto-mounted by Gnome (using udev, I think?) so I imagine the problem is a ...
