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@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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