Mounting USB drive with permissions

[drew1337]

Hi there... I've been searching around for hrs now & it's doing my head in!!!!!!

I've just installed Fedora 17 & i have an NTFS formatted USB drive shared with the 'other' OS on my machine full of music & videos.

Is there anyway to set 'rwx rwx rwx' permissions when a USB drive is auto mounted - without an entry in fstab? Everytime I use fstab & my drive isn't there when Fedora boots, the boot process stalls.

I thought about scripting it manually, but I need the drive available prior to kde starting, so a script in autostart is out...

Currently when it's automounted by the system, it only gives the logged on user permissions to the drive.

Is there any benefit at looking into udev or does udisk control the mounting?

[sea]

Let me collect your provided information...
1) You want an external usb drive to be mounted, so you can write on it.
2) it must be available before kde is starting
3) but you dont want to add it in fstab
AFAIK: this is not possible (3)

However, a chance is there that the settings will be stored after these commands...

sudo mkdir /mnt/my-ext-disk
sudo chown drew1337 /mnt/my-ext-disk -R
sudo mount /path/to/usbdisk /mnt/my-ext-disk

This would make it availabl for current session.
Hope this helps

[drew1337]

Thanks sea.

Yeah, that's what I'd thought I might have to do - I'll write a script to do that during startup.

[sea]

You might try one of the common locations: from another topic
Or somewhere in /etc/rc.d/init.d

Hope this helps.