Make a filesystem accessible by all users

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I have mounted a filesystem in a /mnt/storage but how do i make it accessible for all users not only root?

With accessible, do you mean read-only access or read-write access to everyone? — Janne Pikkarainen, Oct 29 '10 at 10:59
seems like a good question for [unix SE](http://unix.stackexchange.com/) also I'm guessing this depends on how it's mounted. is it a removable drive? what filesystem? nfs? samba? — xenoterracide, Oct 29 '10 at 12:52

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 29 '10 at 12:58

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If you mount the drive with the -o noacl option, everybody will have full read/write access.
If you only want people to be able to read the drive, chmod a+r /mnt/storage

answered Oct 29 '10 at 12:58

Fahad Sadah

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For read-only access you could also use the `ro` option when mounting. – detly Dec 29 '18 at 05:19
Got `mount: /mnt: wrong fs type, bad option, bas superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program, or other error.` NTFS drive. – Vitaly Zdanevich Feb 20 '22 at 19:19

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 30 '10 at 04:55

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You can specify the uid & gid options to identify the mounted volume's owner. In /etc/fstab you can use something like:

/dev/sdc1  /mnt/storage  ext4 uid=1000,gid=1000 1 2

or interactively:

sudo mount -o uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/storage

answered Oct 30 '10 at 04:55

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It's not possible to force an owner on a disk with an ext4 filesystem. Only filesystems which do not support Linux permissions like fat have an attribute for ownership/groupship: uid=value and gid=value. See the manual page on mount. – pintergabor Dec 31 '19 at 08:03

Make a filesystem accessible by all users

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