fedora-list digest, Vol 1 #1181 - 33 msgs

[Carter J. Castor]

Q1) When I mount my USB flash drive I can only write to the
drive as root. I logged in as root and tried to change
permissions for all users to RWE (777?), but I get a message
that says that I don't have permission to change permissions
on the flash drive. I thought root was god, so my wild guess
is that there is something wrong with my entry for sda1 in
fstab:

/dev/sda1  /mnt/removable  auto  auto,user,rw  0 0

Make the line look something like this:

/dev/sda1  /mnt/removable  auto  owner,user,umask=000  0 0

umask is the opposite of chmod so 000 gives full permissions to all
users.