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Okay, the neat thing about Ubuntu is that it automatically mounts any extra drives as read/write for non-root users in /media. But, whenever I use mount from the command line on Ubuntu or any Linux-based operating system, only root can write to the disk. A lot of people just tell me to use chmod or chown, but that is NOT what I want to do because it screws up the existing permissions on the drive. So, how can I mount a drive so that I can write to it without being root?

Melab
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You can use the /etc/fstab to add manually the device (use it with options rw,auto,user). After that, type mount -a to validate the job. See the documentation to more options that can be useful to you.

Yuri Martins
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