Mounted USB HDD only accessible by root

[kalinichta]

Hi there,

I want to attach an USB HDD to create backups. For this purpose I mounted the disk as my current user but I had to use "sudo". Now this user is not able to perform any changes on the disk. I added the disk to /etc/fstab but this also does not help:

/dev/sdb1    /media/usb_hdd     vfat  uid=1000,users           0  0

Then I tried udisks2 via

udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1

but still no access apart from being root.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[Fred Sheehan]

https://linuxconfig.org/howto-mount-usb-drive-in-linux

[Trihexagonal]

Hi there,

I want to attach an USB HDD to create backups. For this purpose I mounted the disk as my current user but I had to use "sudo". Now this user is not able to perform any changes on the disk.

Nor should they be able to for good security practice.

You can move files from the mounted USB HDD onto your resident HDD through your user file manager. The user can then make changes to those files as they see fit.

To add files to, or delete files on, the mounted USB HDD you need to open your file manager using the sudo command and work from it as root.

I use Xfe so I use:

sudo xfe

When I'm done working with files I close the instance of Xfe and work from the user account as usual.