[Gllug] Changing permissions on removable media

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Sun, 2008-03-23 at 18:11 +0000, John G Walker wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:07:05 +0000 "Martin A. Brooks"
> <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
> 
> > John G Walker wrote:
> > > Why not? My tiny brain was under the impression that root could do
> > > anything. And, anyway, how do I sort out the permissions on a piece
> > > of removable media?
> > >   
> > 
> > Mounted read-only?  Or mounted with "errors=remount,ro" and there are 
> > errors?
> > 
> 
> Good question. It gets auto mounted. I've not done anything special to
> actually mount it. It's just there, in the media folder, when I boot
> the machine.
> 
> Maybe I should, specifically do something if I want to keep in control.
> But where would I do that? Fstab? And how?
> 

Does it have a rw/ro physical switch on it?

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