USB external disk write permission. What have I done wrong?

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Mon Sep 15 19:30:23 UTC 2008


Karl Larsen wrote:

>>   
>     First chown will NOT work on /media/disk/. You need to use df to 
> find out the right /dev/ to use. Then you can use chown on your external 
> partition.

This is just wrong, wrong, and wrong,, never chown /dev entries unless
you *really* know what you're doing... chown /media/disk was the right
thing to do.

Sorry, don't know why changing the ownership on an external FS would
prevent automount from working, and not able to test right atm.




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