[Discuss] ln -s will no longer link to USB mounted on /media/<USB-Drive> by Dolphin

[Steven Kurylo]

> The symlink in my home directory does NOT change any permissions. It is just that if I use "sudo mount" to mount the  vfat USB drive in my home directory, the system sets the owner to root, and the owner is the only one who can write to it.  However, if I mount the device using Dolphin, it creates a mount point in /media and mounts the device there, but the owner is set to me, the user, and the group is root.  The result is that I can then write to the file.
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> Yes, it definitely did work yesterday by using the ln -s commmand to create a directory linked to the mount point in /media. What happened to cause it to no longer work today is a complete mystery to me.

I think the difference is yesterday you mounted with dolphin, which
would mount the share with your user.  When you mount it as root, then
only root will be able to access it.

Since dolphin can mount the drive, I would then assume you could drop
the sudo from the mount command.

Is this drive listed in fstab?

Or perhaps dolphin is doing something with fuse...