Mounting a USB Zip drive

[David Abrahams]

Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:

> R Kimber wrote:
>
>> I have a zip drive that mounts OK and I can read it, but I have no
>> write permission.  It gets mounted as:-
>> 
>> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2006-08-27 18:37 zip
>> 
>> How do I change things so that I can write to this disk?
>
> Put the user into the plugdev group...
>
>> <grumble>
>> In the Good Old Days, all I had to do was put an entry into
>> fstab.  Now we have the ghastly and unfriendly udev
>> </grumble>
>
> I beg to differ.  udev is no less friendly than fstab - more
> complicated 

Isn't 

      more complicated == less friendly

a nearly universal truth of computer software?

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Dave Abrahams
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