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Mounting disks without root permissions

Nick — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:55:45 +0000

A very common problem in a default Ubuntu installation – especially if you have windows disks in your pc – is that the system mounts disks with root permissions, which makes things a little harder. By harder I mean you can’t easily modify or delete files, etc.
The solution is easy, we need to tell Ubuntu to mount the disk using the permissions of our user account. Here is how we can do it:

Determine uid of my user

First of all we need to know the uid (user ID) of our user. Open a terminal and give this command:

id -u $USER

This will output a number(usually this will be 1000). Keep this number and let’s go to the next step:

Set fstab to mount the disk as the current user

First of all open the /etc/fstab configuration file as root:

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

You will see something like that:

UUID=3C1850B51850703E /media/disk vfat defaults 0 0

Change the defaults to this:

UUID=3C1850B51850703E /media/disk vfat user,uid=1000,utf8 0 0

Where 1000 is your actual userID. We are done, now every time you login the disk will be accessible from your account. In case your disk is NTFS this wont work, but there is another solution which is actually the simpler one:

Configuring through graphical interface

Install ntfs-config by clicking here, or by executing the above command:

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Then execute the program by executing:

gksu ntfs-config

Click on both the options, and you are done

“WARNING” – Linux commercial

Nick — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:21:23 +0000

Ok I know this is a little bit old one but is one of the coolest linux related commercials I have ever seen. Enjoy

Link love Tuesday 2009-02-03

Nick — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:11:10 +0000

Bellow are some cool articles we found on other blogs recently. Feel free to send us your faves so we can add them in the next link series.

Introduction

Nick — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:08:43 +0000

Hi,

My name is Nick and I am just a random guy that uses Ubuntu for his everyday computer needs. At the time I write this I am an Ubuntu user for just 2 months, yet I have some previous experience with Ubuntu as I am a web developer and I use linux in our servers.

The main purpose behind this blog, is to actually journal my ubuntu experience as a newbie – at least in the desktop area – and share with you tips and interesting stuff I found about it. I am so fascinated that finally linux is an operating system that can be used by anyone, and as a guy who makes a leaving through open source technologies (I am a LAMP developer) I feel that I have to promote it and contribute in any way I can.

If you have any ideas, suggestions or you just want to send me some hate mail, feel free to drop me a line to nikolas at webdigity dot com