Problem mounting a USB flashdrive on Intrepid

[Steven Davies-Morris]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> Subject: Re: Problem
>> mounting a USB flashdrive on Intrepid To:
>> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008,
>> 1:34 AM Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
>>> Your message suggest your wife's user name needs
>> to be added to the
>>> disk group or some other appropriate group.
>> The appropriate group definitely isn't "disk". A user in the disk
>> group would have direct write access to the raw device nodes of 
>> all disks. A "normal" user in the disk group could easily 
>> overwrite entire disks.
>> 
>> 
> Ok. I see that group shows disk:x:6: without my uid on it. I
> thought I had my uid or added it at one time but haven't looked at
> group since installing intrepid. So, what is the appropriate group
> listing in this case. I would like to know for my education. In my
> case I wouldn't feel threatened as I'm user, admin, root whatever
> and responsible for what I do. But that's my problem-:)) Interested
> in your re[ly. Thanks Leonard Chatagnier lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

The original error message was confusing (misleading). It turned out
to have nothing really to do with privileges once I had the old WinXP
NTFS drive mounted correctly in /etc/fstab (UUID=blahblahblah). Then
R/W access to the USB flashdrive automatically fixed itself.
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