I suspect the problem is two fold:
I'm not aware of a fix for the above that won't involve blinding you with science.
- Only the user colin can traverse /media/colin. All other users will get permission denied (or similar) errors.
- If the USB drive has been formatted with a non linux filesystem e.g. FAT32) default mount options only allow writing by the user who mounted it. That'll be colin if you used teh desktop's automounter. root otherwise.
I'm not aware of a fix for the above that won't involve blinding you with science.
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Mon Nov 11, 2024 3:36 pm