Has USB access improved in FC6?

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Dec 16 14:28:03 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 09:00 -0500, neidorff wrote:
> I'm running a FC3 server now and am looking to move to FC6.  One of
> the things that I didn't like in FC3 was that when a USB device is
> mounted, it must be written to by root only.  It seemed that there was
> nothing that I could do to change this behavior.  (So I have to become
> root to copy files onto my MP3 player)  Has this been changed/fixed in
> FC6?

I haven't had that problem on FC4, FC5 or FC6.

> If so, how is mounting and access handled now?

Pretty much automatically.  Plug it in and wait a moment.

What file format are you using on the drive, though?





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