Why is mounting a USB disk in a usable manner so difficult?

[Nils Kassube]

J wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
> <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2013/12/16 J <dreadpiratejeff at gmail.com>
> >> How the heck do I fix this so that my external hard drives are
> >> mounted in a way that I can actually use them?
> >> 
> >> Why do we make it so bloody difficult to actually plug a drive in
> >> and use it?
> > 
> > I don't know why that happens, it doesn't happen to me. I just plug
> > mine in and it's ready to be used.
> > Anyway, can't you just change the owner with ”sudo chown
> > bladernr:bladernr /media/bladernr/Alexandria”?
> 
> Yeah, I can, but that's really a temporary fix, I think... at least in
> the since that I think I will run into the same issue every time I
> use the drive on a different machine, once I set it permanently on my
> primary system.

The fix is permanent for the drive, but it may not work on other 
machines as expected. The owner is actually not "bladernr" but "1000" 
(if your UID is "1000" like it is for the first user created on the 
Ubuntu system). The files on the disk may be owned by me, if you plug 
your drive into my machine. I don't think there is an easy way to make 
it work like the usual USB stick which is fromatted with FAT32.


Nils