usb mass storeage device and gnome-volume-manager

[Markus Huber]

Jonathan G. Underwood wrote:

> I am finding that (with FC4) when I plug in my USB mass storeage device, 
> it's mounted automatically and an icon appears on the desktop (using 
> Gnome). I presume that this is g-v-m doing it's magic and automounting. 
> However, it's being mounted read only, and is being shown as belonging 
> to root. How do I change this so that it is read-write automatically?

What's the filesystem on the USB device?

With vfat I had the experience, that i cannot write directly to the 
toplevel of the filesystem as user, eg. /media/usbdisk but can create a 
subfolder and that's rwx.

With ext3 you create a group which is allowed to write on that device on 
toplevel, and it works. Just checked it now with an external usb-drive 
with ext3.

I don't know if I can do that with vfat as well, but till now I have not 
found a solution.

Regards
Markus Huber