USB booting :: Saving files to usb

Having devices only mountable as root is a security precaution I suppose... user 'dsl' has sudo access anyways so I don't see any problem. This isn't just for usb partitions in particular either. However, you can create a directory that's owned by user 'dsl' i.e. in /cdrom - or another point that is already mounted writeable by root (depending on setup).

Also, what exactly is a "reversed-usb-zip type installation"? usb-hdd?

original here.