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Automount USB HDD ownership (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm on Manjaro Linux with Gnome. When I attach a USB HDD to my laptop, it mounts as /run/media/username/uuid. But for some reason, it is mounted as root and not with the owner set to the currently logged in user. For that reason, I can't create new directory's on this HDD, after I attached this to the laptop.

I can only switch to root, create the folder and change ownership of this new folder to the currently logged in user.

Is there any way to automount the USB hdd/stick with ownership of the currently logged in user?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

sudo chown -R username:group /path/to/the/drive/

You should now be able to create folders and mount it normally

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or add the uuid to fstab so it's mounted as owned by their uid.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there some variable to use as placeholder for the current logged in user, or do I have to use one gid/uid for all users on the laptop?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's a good use case for groups, mounted as that group and the users who need it being in that group.