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Automount USB HDD ownership (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I'm on Manjaro Linux with Gnome. When I attach a USB HDD to my laptop, it mounts as /run/media/username/uuid. But for some reason, it is mounted as root and not with the owner set to the currently logged in user. For that reason, I can't create new directory's on this HDD, after I attached this to the laptop.

I can only switch to root, create the folder and change ownership of this new folder to the currently logged in user.

Is there any way to automount the USB hdd/stick with ownership of the currently logged in user?

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

sudo chown -R username:group /path/to/the/drive/

You should now be able to create folders and mount it normally

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Or add the uuid to fstab so it's mounted as owned by their uid.

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    • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I think this policy trick https://mxlinux.org/wiki/system/mount-internal-partition-without-using-root-password/ at least on Debian it works

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