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How can I automatically set write permissions on mounting a usb drive in linux?
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When I mount an external usb drive on linux (CentOs4), the permissions are by default set to read-only. Since there are multiple users on the computer who need to use the external drive, I want everybody to have permission for the entire drive. I also want them to be able to mount the drive if the …
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To enable everyone rw access, the key is umask=0 option to mount command. umask=0 is enough, uid and gid just for sake of clarity, so you don't see more 'root' owners than necessarily. @Tom's answer (writing /etc/fstab entry) will allow you to skip …
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