a better way to mount usb drives.

Don't just sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/tmp

This mounts with root ownership. Rather,

sudo mount -o uid=username /dev/sdb /media/tmp

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Or in fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /home/me/mountpoint vfat gid=mylogin,dmask=007,fmask=117,rw 0 3

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