USB External Drive Automounts as Read Only

[Herminio Hernandez, Jr.]

You can also make a systemd .mount file and have systemd mount it on boot.
I use that on my RPI3 for USB storage works great.

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 1:32 AM, James Mcphee <jmcphe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Quick and dirty would be to set an fstab entry with all the things you
> want with it set to not mount on boot, so it doesn't interrupt you with the
> blkid for the device.  Maybe.  Might take some playing.
>
> Other things to try are in the help.ubuntu.com page for usb drives.
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB
>
> On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz
> > wrote:
>
>> I have been knocking my head against a wall for the past hour. I am
>> trying to plug in a USB external drive and have Ubuntu 14.04 mount the
>> drive so I can write data to it. But the drive is always mounted with root
>> as the owner and group. I have read countless pages about how to enable a
>> user to read/write to the drive but to no avail. The drive is automatically
>> mounted in /media/mark/dive1. I have not created a permanent mount point in
>> /etc/fstab because the drive is, well, removable, so it will not always be
>> connected to the usb port.
>>
>> There has to be a simple fix to this problem.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>>
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