How To Make USB Drive Writeable?

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Mark Greenwood <fatgerman at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> This has been bugging me for some time. It's not KDE specific because it
> does it on Ubuntu and Mythbuntu boxes too, but I'll limit this to what
> happens on Kubuntu.
>
> I have an external USB hard drive. When I connect it to my computer,
> running Karmic, the New Device Notifier thing pops up and says I've inserted
> a new disc and would I like to open it with Dolphin. "Why yes I would", I
> reply, "otherwise why would I have plugged it in?".... Ahem... Anyway, a
> Dolphin window for the drive duly opens but I do not have permission to
> write files to it. Why does the system allow me to mount the disc as a
> normal user and then forbid that user to write to it? It's extremely
> unhelpful.
>
> What I've done as a workaround is to switch to a terminal, "sudo mkdir" a
> bunch of directories, and then change the permissions on those directories
> so that the user who says "Yes I want to mount the disc" is also able to
> actually use it. But I feel there must be some neater, policy type way of
> achieving this, so that my normal user can create directories at the root of
> mounted external discs, but if there is I've yet to find it. Does anybody
> know? Mandriva didn't annoy me like this... (and if that's not flame-bait I
> don't know what is :) )
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
> --
>
Did you by any chance set this drive up under Mandiva? The reason I ask is
that when I switched from Fedora to Kubuntu, the UserID for the same
username was different, so that files that were owned by me under fedora
were no longer mine under Kubuntu.

-- 
Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)
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