Thank you. Is it possible to ensure that the files on the device will be readable and writable by the user who mounted the USB drive? I have done the following, and it may be working: 1. mkdir /media/BLUE 2. labelled the USB drive "BLUE" 3. chmod 777 /media/BLUE 4. in fstab: ####USB BLUE LABEL=BLUE /media/BLUE ext2 defaults,users,rw,auto 0 0 So far so good. I am not sure this is doing what I want, however, as I still see the owner of some files as "1000". Thank you again, Alan <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Thorny <<a href="mailto:thorntreehome@gmail.com">thorntreehome@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:30:35 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: [...] > > Is this doable? > Yes, you may use labels or uuid in your fstab to have your partitions mounted on the mount points you specify or use udev rules to get the same device node each time. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> -- Alan Davis "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist. It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true. ---- Bertrand Russell