And another stupid question: hotplugging and permissions

William Grant tanarrifujitsu at optusnet.com.au
Sat Jan 7 01:18:54 UTC 2006


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Michael Richter wrote:
>     > When I hotplug USB disks into my system, they mount noexec. (And
>     > some weird ownership issues arise as well.) How do I change these
>     > defaults?
> 
>     What are the ownership issues that you are having?
> 
> 
> They seem to always come up owned root:root and with permissions 700. 
> This means that every time I start up my computer I have to go to /media
> and chown/chmod them to be for me with appropriate privileges.
> 

Sounds like a configuration issue in fstab. Like Chris Dawson said,
please tell us the contents of your /etc/fstab.

William.
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