Mounting question
Geoff Shang
geoff at QuiteLikely.com
Fri Apr 15 09:54:14 UTC 2011
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Tom Masterson wrote:
> I have a mount problem. I have several usb sticks and a usb external hard
> drive and am using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick. When I mount any of them using
> either mount or pmount or allowing them to automount I can't copy anything to
> them from the console except as root (sudo to be exact). Also things like
> vmware or virtualbox do not have access to them. The command I use is:
>
> sudo mount -t <type> -o rw,umask=000 <device> <dir>
You can specify the user and group that all files should have by using the
uid and gid values to mount like so:
sudo mount -t <type> -o rw,umask=000,uid=<value>,gid=<value> <device> <dir>
The man page doesn't say, but I'd expect the required value to be a
number, not a username.
Geoff.
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