[Gllug] Changing permissions on removable media

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 23 Mar, John G Walker wrote:
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> 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?
> 

   I often use KDE, and add an icon to the desktop for an external hard disc
or floppy drive. There is provision to change the r/w options through the
icon "properties". Perhaps lazy, but it works.
   I have noticed a problem with floppy discs DOS formatted on an Acorn
computer. The Acorn computer is happy to use any DOS formatted floppy discs,
but Linux computers will only read a disc formatted by Linux or M$, or a
cloned copy. Perhaps there is some oddity in the directory structure as
initialised by the Acorn, which Linux gets correct. Could there be something
similar happening with your external drives?

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