Re: Make external hard drive accessible to all users

[Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 13.07.2012 22:39, schrieb Rick Stevens:
> On 07/13/2012 01:25 PM, Pasha R issued this missive::
>> F17 introduced a change to how external drives are mounted. They are
>> mounted now exclusively to a logged on user. This is somewhat
>> inconvenient, because iso images stored on external drive is now
>> inaccessible to virtual machines. Is it possible to make drives
>> accessible to everyone?
> 
> Add the mount to /etc/fstab and make sure the "auto" option is included.
> Something like:
> 
>     /path/to/device    /mountpoint    ext4      defaults,auto     0 0

you do **not* want auto for external drives
auto/noauto does not matter at all

add it to fstab is simply enough

with "defaults,noauto,users" even users can mount the drive
permissions are done via fileystem

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