Debian 13.

I have an FSTAB config that auto mounts a second drive , NTFS fstype that used to be on windows (same laptop) UUID=666 /media/userName/Data auto defaults,nofail,x-systemd.automount 0 2

Because the /media/userName/Data path was made in a way that didn’t transfer ownership to my user, and because I am clueless about user/group management on linux, Virtual machine manager and jenkins and all the other program based users that don’t really get a “real” user I can manage on cockpit or similar (AFAIK) can’t use that disk for writing information to and etc.

I already tried to change owner to a shared group in a shitty way that locked me out of that very important drive. Also, it doesn’t seem to work anyway, and just fucking sets it back to root or ignores it when I try to do it.

What’s the simplest change I can make to the fstab entry or ownership to make use of that drive for jenkins pipelines , steam games and most importantly, Virtual Machine Manager guest machines?

This shit scares me, and I have very little time, so I will get back to you guys in due time, and appreciate your assistance.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
    1·
    1 month ago

    that’s what I meant with this :

    can I share it with a group like that too? like 1003?

    UUID=666 /media/userName/Data auto uid=1000,gid=1000,groups=1003 defaults,nofail,x-systemd.automount 0 2
    ?

    I already have a group like that, sharedFolders, if I use the ID from that eg :

    getent group
sharedFolders:x:1003:myUser,otherUser,root

    and modify FSTAb like this :

    UUID=666 /media/myUser/Data auto defaults,nofail,x-systemd.automount,uid=1000,gid=1003 0 2

    would that work?

      • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOP
        1·
        1 month ago

        I did set it to that, and the folder I am mounting to now has this :

        
$ ls -l
total 24
drwxr-x---+ 3 root root           4096 Aug 28 18:28 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root           4096 Jan 17  2026 ..
drwxrwxrwx  1 myUser  sharedFolders 16384 Sep 28 23:15 Data

$pwd 
/media/myUser

        but when I login as otherUser, they cannot access the /media/myUser/Data folder. What could I be doing wrong?

        • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
          1·
          30 days ago

          Which groups does your ordinary user belong to and which the one that cannot acces the path?

          Does the group sharedFolders have permission on the folder /media/myUser/Data before you have mounted the device?