harjim

I have loaded SUSE 10.1 and am having trouble with my usb flash drive and usb external hard drive.

When I connect each of the drives, Suse sees them, and then opens up Nautilus. However, I can not write or change any files on either of the drives. I see the files and can open them, but not save changes.

I have visited different forums (through google search) and have tried different suggestions. All to no avail.

I want to be able to plug in either device and have Suse automatically recognize and mount. Then, I want to be able to open, edit, and re-save file back to the drive.

Any help would be appreciated.

Javasnob

Look into your /etc/fstab file. Editing it appropriately will probably solve your problem.

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harjim

I have tried different ways to edit the fstab file to solve the problem. From the various post I have seen it is some variation on the following:

/dev/sda1 /media/usbflash auto [various forms of user,rw,exec,noauto,sync] 0 0

It usually causes an icon to appear on the desktop that gives me various errors on mounting or lets me access the drive, but still have read-only permission

fanfan1313

exact same problem...in fact my question is a few posts down...

Help in this is GREATLY appreciated

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bigtomrodney

Occasionally the devices are mounted as root instead of as the user. I'm trying to figure out the pattern as to when it happens like this so I can avoid it. Root should be able to write to the device. Something that has worked for me is to eject the device and connect it to a different port.

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akshay_iitd

happens to me too..
just safely remove them and plug them in again to see if it works...
cheers

apoorv_khurasia

Two solutions are there with me:
1. usermod <username> -g usb
2. in /etc/fstab with your line for usb add this uid=<your uid>

post me if they work/don't work.

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fanfan1313

apoorv_khurasia your advice worked perfectly. Thanks a lot.

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harjim

apoorv_khurasia, I followed your directions and I get "Operation Failed" with the following message: "fstab configuration does not allow unprivileged operation"

Here is a look at my fstab:

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usbflash auto noauto,uid=jim,rw 0 0

Any help would be appreciated

apoorv_khurasia

Why are auto and noauto together? Just modify the last line to this
In case the problems do not vanish please let us know. And as always, if they work just add a post saying so.

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