Automount Reiserfs external drive RW

[telic]

I put a spare Maxtor IDE HDD into an ADS Tech external USB drive chassis, reformatted it from NTFS to ReiserFS, plugged it in to Mint, and... read only!? Bummer.

Bianca sees my USB HDD as /dev/sda1 and mounts it at /media/usbdisk, so to look at the access permissions...

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cd /media
ls -l usbdisk

Which reveals that only root has write permission...

drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 112 2007-04-20 00:44 usbdisk

So, first I change the Group ID, to my Mint login ID (telic)...

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sudo chown :telic usbdisk

The ls -l command shows the change of Group access...

drwxr-xr-x 4 root telic 112 2007-04-20 00:44 usbdisk

Next I change the Group permissions to include write...

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sudo chmod g+w usbdisk

Now ls -l shows...

drwxrwxr-x 4 root telic 112 2007-04-20 00:44 usbdisk

That's it. Bianca auto-mounts the USB HDD, and I can read and write and all. The mount directory comes and goes as the drive is hot-plugged/unplugged, but my access permissions persist.

Writes are still denied to Other users, but you could also change that using chmod.

Does this process work for you?


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