Friday, November 14, 2014

SOLVED! Debian mount USB stick always as root and you cannot write it as normal user (Known Debian Jessie USB installation issue)

Posted on Friday, November 14, 2014 by T.Sajaniemi
I just installed Debian Jessie KDE edition ISO and I got problem to save the files to USB memory stick.

Then I checked the the permissions of the USB stick and it was root:root.

I finally fixed it by commenting out following line on /etc/fstab-file:

#/dev/sdf1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Now it works just great at least in KDE.


The reason for the issue is that if you install Debian from a USB drive, the installer adds sdX1 to fstab and whenever you plug it in the system will mount it as root.

So you should always remember to uncomment that line from fstab after installing from USB.
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3 comments:

  1. chadThursday, February 26, 2015

    Thanks for posting. I had the same trouble also.

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  2. LibremáticaThursday, June 04, 2015

    Your post helped me to fix this problem. I've also translated your post and link it to this page.

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  3. AnonymousTuesday, August 11, 2015

    Thanks a lot.

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