Possible Duplicate:Mount permissions always blocked I'm using a scilinux machine. Whenever I connect an external drive, it is mounted as read only (and the root has full access). What and how should I edit to give a simple user the write privilege?
How to give regular users the write privilege to an external drive?
scientific linux;privileges;external hdd
The pmount (policy-based mount) lets you do that. See this question (possible duplicate).