Re: How to get Btrfs on 2nd partition of USB HDD to automount as read/write

[Hugo Mills <hugo@carfax.org.uk>]

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On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 03:51:47PM -0400, dg1727 wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> The question below is based on 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-users/2012-
> August/004509.html
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help with the following question, 
> including pointing me to some other info resource if needed.  
> 
> I have a user with an Xubuntu 12.04.1 laptop, 32-bit.  He needs to 
> use a USB hard disk drive which has 2 partitions:  the 1st 
> partition is NTFS and the 2nd partition is Btrfs.  
> 
> When he plugs in the hard drive, both partitions auto-mount OK, 
> except that the Btrfs partition automounts read-only.  That is, the 
> permissions of the directories in /dev are drwx------ for the NTFS 
> and dr-xr-xr-x for the Btrfs.  
> 
> How can the OS be set up so that the Btrfs will automount 
> read/write?  

   As Anthony points out, this is a property of the filesystem, not
the OS or the mount options. Just use chmod.

   (It's only filesystems like FAT, which have no concept of
permissions, which have mount options to set permissions)

   Hugo.

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