Hi friends,

I have some external hard drives and SSDs, which I use with my Debian 11 machine. I normally use them through the GUI file manager(pcmanfm-qt). I tried to access them from the terminal using commands I found after searching the web, like, fdisk, mount etc. However, the issue is that I have to use sudo when using these commands and as a result after mounting I cannot make changes to my files in the drive(s) without using sudo. The only way to avoid using sudo, is to first go to the required folder in the GUI file manager and then opening the folder in terminal. Is there a way to forego using the GUI file manager completely and only using the terminal entirely to properly access my drives and make changes without using sudo?

EDIT: Someone suggested usbmount. I am sure that works, but it is not packaged for Debian. Instead, as suggested, by another person, I use pmount. It works perfectly for my needs on Debian. Thanks to all for taking the time to respond and help me with my problem.

  • KindaABigDyl@programming.dev
    3·
    24 days ago

    Have you tried usbmount?

    This automatically mounts usb drives if they’re vfat, ext4, or hfsplus. Options: sync,noexec,nodev,noatime,nodiratime

    I believe it puts them in /media/run/DEVICE_NAME or something like that

    • Libre ExtremistOPEnglish
      4·
      24 days ago

      Thanks for your response. But the Debian package is not maintained. Do you know of any other way?