External drives mount owned by the wrong user
Removable drives mount with root or user-only ownership, so other accounts and services cannot write to them.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
9 public reports · first reported 26 October 2011 · last reported 16 October 2026
What's going wrong
People who plug USB drives, SD cards, or exFAT and NTFS disks into the operating system's find the drive mounts with ownership or permissions that block writes, even for their own account, a web server, or a sync client.
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