In a past article I wrote about a comparison of Openelec, Raspbmc and Xbian. That article hit a record in terms of number of readings and comments on this blog. I spoke about some modification I had to do to Raspbmc to make it usable for my needs but I din’t show them. In this article I’m going to fill this gap.

In order to make the usb drives be mounted with writing permissions to all the user of the system I’ve modified the /etc/udisk-glue.conf as following (in bold are the part that I’ve added:

filter disks {
 optical = false
 partition_table = false
 usage = filesystem
}

match disks {
 automount = true
 automount_options = { sync, noatime, <strong>"dmask=0", "fmask=0"</strong>}
 post_insertion_command = "udisks --set-spindown %device_file --spindown-timeout 1800 --mount %device_file --mount-options sync,noatime,<strong>dmask=0,fmask=0</strong>"
}

And I had to let udisk-glue run as root as following:

# udisks-glue
#

description "udisks-glue for udisks"

start on started dbus
stop on (runlevel [06] or stopped dbus)

expect fork
respawn

#exec su - pi -c "udisks-glue"
exec udisks-glue

(I’ve changed udisk-glue such that It’s run by root)

Since there are a lot of folks out there that are using this distro I think it’s is worth sharing this knowledge. If some dev is reading this, please consider to propagate this changes (or do equivalent ones) to the distro in order to increase flexibility.