[SOLVED] Get write permissions with udisksctl

I'm trying to mount a USB storage device as a normal user via
udisksctl mount --block-device /dev/sdb1
After that I can read its contents under /run/media/me/uuid/
but I am unable to write to it.
How do I gain write access (without sudo)?
Additional information:
* I'm not using a desktop environment (xmonad)
* I don't want the drive to automount
Last edited by Aton (2015-04-23 07:06:09)

lucke wrote:If it's ext4, then whatever permissions you give to files and directories on it should matter.
Thanks for the hint!
In /run/media/me/
chown me uuid
apparently solved the problem.
I left the group ownership at root, any objections to that?
It's primarily going to be used for backups.

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