Armand Karlsen
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Joined: 18 Aug 2005
Posts: 57
Location: London, UK
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 Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2024 9:01 pm Post subject: Attempting to mount external hard drive clobbers permissions |
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I have an external hard drive formatted to XFS that I intend to use as an occasionally-connected offline backup and I want the normal user on my machine to be able to mount and write to it, for convenience.
I created the directory inside /mnt, then used chown and chmod to give ownership and full permissions to the user, and ls -l shows as such: | Code: | | drwxrwxrwx 2 armand armand 6 Oct 9 21:27 extbak |
The mountpoint is listed in /etc/fstab for read-write, allow non-root to mount: | Code: | | PARTUUID=5916f543-8185-4d1a-8d6d-6e62246cc0a1 /mnt/extbak xfs noauto,rw,user 0 0 |
However, when I actually mount the drive, ownership and permissions get clobbered back to root, and it's turned read-only for everyone else: | Code: | | drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Oct 9 20:42 extbak |
Am I missing something really basic here, or how do I give the regular user read-write access to the drive? |
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