Q1) When I mount my USB flash drive I can only write to the drive as root. I logged in as root and tried to change permissions for all users to RWE (777?), but I get a message that says that I don't have permission to change permissions on the flash drive. I thought root was god, so my wild guess is that there is something wrong with my entry for sda1 in fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto auto,user,rw 0 0 Make the line look something like this: /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable auto owner,user,umask=000 0 0 umask is the opposite of chmod so 000 gives full permissions to all users.
