How To Make USB Drive Writeable?

[Jim MacLeod]

Mark Greenwood wrote:

> This has been bugging me for some time. It's not KDE specific because it
> does it on Ubuntu and Mythbuntu boxes too, but I'll limit this to what
> happens on Kubuntu.
> 
> I have an external USB hard drive. When I connect it to my computer,
> running Karmic, the New Device Notifier thing pops up and says I've
> inserted a new disc and would I like to open it with Dolphin. "Why yes I
> would", I reply, "otherwise why would I have plugged it in?".... Ahem...
> Anyway, a Dolphin window for the drive duly opens but I do not have
> permission to write files to it. Why does the system allow me to mount the
> disc as a normal user and then forbid that user to write to it? It's
> extremely unhelpful.
> 
I don't have a usb hdd but do use a usb stick. I formatted it and created 
folders for myself and another user, then set relevant owner permissions. 
Now I just plug in the stick and can read/write any time without touching 
fstab
 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
HTH

JIM