External HDD drive with ext4 mount only as root

Hello list,

I'm just salvaged a laptop HDD, put it on a USB case, and formatted with ext4. But when I plug it on, it mounts only with root permissions. USB Flash drives mounts correctly here. I'm not willing to put a line on fstab, as this HDD will be used on several different machines. How can I mount it as my user? I'm using kde4 on sid.

dmesg output:
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=152d, idProduct=2339
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
usb 1-1: Product: USB to ATA/ATAPI Bridge
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: JMicron
usb 1-1: SerialNumber: 83E8925A4FFF
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi17 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 8
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi 17:0:0:0: Direct-Access     FUJITSU  MHZ2250BJ FFS G2      PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
sd 17:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB)
sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 17:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
EXT4-fs (sdb1): barriers enabled
kjournald2 starting: pid 23822, dev sdb1:8, commit interval 5 seconds
EXT4-fs (sdb1): internal journal on sdb1:8
EXT4-fs (sdb1): delayed allocation enabled
EXT4-fs: file extents enabled
EXT4-fs: mballoc enabled
EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode

/media/.hal-mtab:
/dev/sdb1       1000    0       ext4    nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal        /media/nostromo


Ivan Marin

Laboratório de Hidráulica Computacional - LHC
Departamento de Hidráulica e Saneamento - SHS
Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos - EESC
Universidade de São Paulo - USP

http://albatroz.shs.eesc.usp.br
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[Γιώργος Πάλλας]

Ivan Marin wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I'm just salvaged a laptop HDD, put it on a USB case, and formatted
> with ext4. But when I plug it on, it mounts only with root
> permissions. USB Flash drives mounts correctly here. I'm not willing
> to put a line on fstab, as this HDD will be used on several different
> machines. How can I mount it as my user? I'm using kde4 on sid.
>

If you want to use it USB stick like, just mount it as root, and give
# chmod ugo+rw /media/mountpoint
(where mountpoint your mount point :-) )

But then I will have to do it every time I plug it, or not? Is there any other more automatic solution?

Thanks

Ivan Marin

2009/11/6 Γιώργος Πάλλας <gpall@...>

Ivan Marin wrote:

Hello list,

I'm just salvaged a laptop HDD, put it on a USB case, and formatted with ext4. But when I plug it on, it mounts only with root permissions. USB Flash drives mounts correctly here. I'm not willing to put a line on fstab, as this HDD will be used on several different machines. How can I mount it as my user? I'm using kde4 on sid.

If you want to use it USB stick like, just mount it as root, and give
# chmod ugo+rw /media/mountpoint
(where mountpoint your mount point :-) )