[ale] ext3 formatted USB disks

[James Sumners]

You just need to change the permissions on the mounted FS so that your
user can write to it. FAT does not support user permissions, that is
why it lets anyone alter the FS.

On 6/2/07, Christopher Fowler <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I'm in the process of upgrading the hdd in my laptop so I bought
> one of those 2.5" enclosures at Frys.  I partition the drive as linux
> and formatted as ext3.
>
> Normally when I plug in a USB stick that is fat formatted it is mounted
> automatically in /media/usbdisk.  I have full rights to that fs.  When
> the Linux one is plugged in it is mounted as /dev/sda1 and I need to be
> root to write anything in there.  I guess that is being limited by the
> FS on the disk?
>
> /dev/sda1 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
>
>
> For a usb fat stick I normally see uid=500.
>
>
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