2. Hard drive read only mode

gorzka

I have 2 hard drives in my computer. I only use the second hard drive as data storage. This is integrated dynamically. Unfortunately, after mounting it can only be written to as root.
the entry in the fstab

/dev/sdb1 none ext4 defaults 0 0

How can I change this?

And of course I wish everyone a happy new year and a nice New Year's Eve party

[deleted]

gorzka It's recommended to use disk UUIDs instead of /dev/sdx paths as those may change

Lucien_Lachance

heres how i do it, i dont know if its the recommented way
1: make a dir to mount the 2nd drive in: sudo mkdir /mnt/data (or whatever you choose)
2: give myself ownership of that dir (or else it would be owned by root and be read only):sudo chown -R username:username /mnt/data (replace username:username with your username, like gorzka:gorzka)
3: edit fstab so that it it will actually get mounted in that dir, something like: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/data ext4 defaults,noatime 0 0

reboot

gorzka

It works ;-)

Thank you and a happy new yeaer

zmaint

Easiest way. Install Disks. Unmount the drive. Select drive. Edit mount options. Slide the toggle over to not use session defaults, tick mount auto on boot. Save and remount. Good to go.