Debian 12 - Permission issues exFAT external hard drive
by paulosaolo from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6HHH0)
Hi
I'm desperately hoping that somebody can help!
I've mounted an exFAT formatted external hard drive via USB. The mount point is within my user home folder (previously attempted within /media but same issue).
I need my user account (and associated service users) to be able to access, read and write to the external hard drive. For obvious reasons I don't really want to chmod permissions completely wide open to all users. The drive will only mount to root:root ownership and the system won't allow me to change owner or group.
I read that exFAT file system doesn't support permissions and I've read about using exFAT Fuse though I believe that exFAT is now supported natively in the Linux Kernel (I'm using Debian 12). I know that I can access the drive as I can navigate the filesystem from the command line.
The drive is mounted by reference to UUID and my FSTAB is set up as follows:
UUID=xxxx-xxxx /home/$username/DriveMount exfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
I hope the above contains enough info to provide any advice but please do let me know if anything further is needed. I've spent about a week scouring countless articles!
I'm desperately hoping that somebody can help!
I've mounted an exFAT formatted external hard drive via USB. The mount point is within my user home folder (previously attempted within /media but same issue).
I need my user account (and associated service users) to be able to access, read and write to the external hard drive. For obvious reasons I don't really want to chmod permissions completely wide open to all users. The drive will only mount to root:root ownership and the system won't allow me to change owner or group.
I read that exFAT file system doesn't support permissions and I've read about using exFAT Fuse though I believe that exFAT is now supported natively in the Linux Kernel (I'm using Debian 12). I know that I can access the drive as I can navigate the filesystem from the command line.
The drive is mounted by reference to UUID and my FSTAB is set up as follows:
UUID=xxxx-xxxx /home/$username/DriveMount exfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
I hope the above contains enough info to provide any advice but please do let me know if anything further is needed. I've spent about a week scouring countless articles!