Re: USB Drive Problems and Solutions Collection
Originally Posted by
xender69
Hi,
I'm having a similar problem. I have an external USB drive and in the /etc/fstab I put:
/dev/sdg1 /media/usbdrive vfat defaults 0 1
and when I execute mount -a it works but as a normal user, I can't edit/add/delete anything off this drive. As root, I tried to give the permission of 777 and while the command works, when I look at the filesystem, it shows back up as 755.
Help please.
Thanks in advance.
You need to specify to write/read on the fstab. Do a mount | grep usbdrive and it will show read-only.
/dev/sdg1 /media/usbdrive vfat -rw defaults 0 1
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