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When I plug an USB pen to my PC and mount the device using KDE's Device Notifier, the mounted device is owned by my user, who has write permissions.

However, when I connect a USB harddisk and mount a partition in the same way, the mounted device is owned by root, and since the owner is the only one with write permissions I can't write to the disk.

How do I configure the device notifier's actions to mount the HD with my user as owner, just like it mounts the USB pen?

I'm using Fedora 9.

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Can you unmount it and then mount it manually with your own user?

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Well, yes, but that's not the point :) I'd really like to know how to configure the notifier popup/gadget. – user6847 Oct 28 '09 at 23:27
You need to allow you user to mount devices first. Try Point 3 in the following link: freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html – mr-euro Nov 1 '09 at 18:25
Perhaps check this too tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged – mr-euro Nov 1 '09 at 18:31
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Probably your /etc/fstab has an entry for your hard disk and its settings are overriding KDE's built-in HAL-based automount. Set the flags option uid and gid to your liking (see man 5 fstab, man 8 mount section Mount options for foofs), or try disabling the entry altogether.

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