Ownership of External Devices

[perthie]

If I plug in a flash drive that is formatted as FAT, it is given tc:staff ownership, so it's easy to use. But if the device is formatted as ext, the ownership becomes root:root, so I have to use sudo mode to work with it. There is probably a good reason for this, but it's a bit inconvenient.

[curaga]

FAT doesn't support permissions, so the mounted user gets them temporarily. Ext2 does, so whatever is set on the device stays when mounted.

[^thehatsrule^]

Creating a directory with tc:staff permissions would probably be a simple alternative.

[perthie]

Thanks! That works.