Hi JD, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:04 PM, JD <jd1008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > uuid's are supposed to be universal - but I am not sure what that means. > >From the man page: > OSSP uuid - Universally Unique Identifier Command-Line Tool > Yes I was aware of that. That is why I asked if you meant for me to use it in the fstab. > That said, I do not know of any way that will let you > connect your drive to any (Linux?) system and expect it to be automounted > onto some specific mount point (assuming the mount point exists). I was not talking about mount points. As far as I understand the mount points are automatically generated from the device labels and mounted under /media/<label>/ for removable media. My issue was the top level directory on my removable drive was not writeable as the regular user. Follow Ed's tip of chowning the first time does the trick. On subsequent mounts on different systems the permissions are retained. Thanks every one who replied. My issue has been solved. :) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines