Thread: USB drive and File Manager
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BanditRider is offline BanditRider
2006-12-09 , 23:02
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Originally Posted by JimRooney
Thanks for the reply.

Fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/hda vfat rw

/mnt/hda is owned by user and grouped by users

The drive mounts as before (with less typing by me ) but is still read only to the file manager (it's rw to command line). Perhaps I have something wrong in that fstab statement? Maybe I'm wrong and the file manager isn't runing as "User"?

Thanks again for your help
Jim

You can auto-mount it at boot time by adding the mount line to the bottom of /etc/init.d/minircS
just before the exit 0.
Then add /mnt/hda to the umount line in /etc/init.d/minireboot and minishutdown to un-mount the drive when re-booting or shutting down.

chmod 777 /mnt/hda should make the mountpoint wide open (done as root)

Did you create the files on the drive as user or did you copy the files there while it was connected to a PC?

create a new file by typing: touch /mnt/hda/xxx
this will create a 0-byte file called xxx
ls -l should show this file as owned by user. Check who owns the other files.
If not user, enter chown -R user /mnt/hda1 as root.

you should be able to delete the file xxx with the File Manager.