[arch-general] how to mount external hdd

[Alessandro Doro]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 06:29:37PM -0800, Preston C. wrote:
> I just wanted to see if I could mount the hard drive and access it as
> user, which I couldn't.
You can, and mount(8)¹ is very exhaustive.
Assuming your HD is formatted with some kind of MS filesystem (fat/ntfs)
you can tweak the mount options to set the ownership of the files.

¹ In short: man mount