All User Read/Write to usbdisk

Richard Hubbard hubbardr at adelphia.net
Fri Mar 11 05:21:08 EST 2005


Frank Kumro wrote:

>I was wondering how I can have any user be able to read and write to
>the usb thumb drive I have. Now i am the only one using it so I mount
>it with
>
>sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk/
>
>I can read it but I cannot remove data from it. I cant write to it
>either, how can I enable any user to delete,modify,write to the disk?
>
>  
>
something else to keep in mind, some usb sticks have a 'write protect' 
switch.  if you have one, make sure it is switched to the other 
position. (spoken as someone who is old enough to have too much 
experience with floppy disks!)



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