[ubuntu-in] filesystem queries queries for external drive

[Mehul Ved]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Rohit V Bhute <rvbhute at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did a 'sudo chown rohit:rohit -R rohit_sc' where rohit_sc was the
> mount point (in /media) and that did the trick - I could copy, delete,
> etc on the drive. Do I have to run this command every time I plug in the
> drive or can it be automated?

No need to do that everytime. There are 2 solutions to fix this problem
1) If you are mounting via fstab, then add uid=<user id of rohit> to
the options column
2) If you are using HAL, then you will need to modify
/etc/udev/rules.d/XX-hal.rules, where XX is some number. This article
should give some idea on how to do that
http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/article.php/3635686 .
Don't forget to check the URL's below.
I beleive nautilus does have features to allow one to pass such
options to removable media. Check it in the removable media
properties. Unfortunately, I don't have buntu, gnome or removable
media to check that.

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