Am Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2004 22:06 schrieb Terry Polzin: First of all, with this last posting I am moving my enquiry to fedora-list as I seem to bother some guys on this list with an FC3 topic. I am sorry for being off-topic here though I believe this problem still persists in FC4 (I do not have the time to test this). > On Thursday 09 December 2004 15:57, Stephan Groà wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to use my external USB harddisk under FC3. When I plug in the > > disk it is recognized by hald and the /etc/fstab is (correctly) modified > > (see attachment). But if an unpriviledged user mounts one of the ext3 > > partitions he only has read access but no write access on it. Only root > > is alowed to read AND write to the partition. If the partition is > > formated as FAT the user mounting it has both read and write access to > > it. Short question: Is it possible to get read-write access for ext3 > > partitions and if yes, how must I adjust my config? > > > > Thank you for some advice. > > > > Regards, > > Stephan. > > What are the permissions on > > /media > /media/usbdisk They are (of course) owned by root and only writable for root but if I mount a FAT-partition, the ownership is changed automatically to the user who mounted it. So, to render my question more precisely: Why isn't the ownership of a mounted ext3 partition not ajusted to the id of the mounting user? Regards, Stephan.
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2 LABEL=/opt /opt ext3 defaults 1 2 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 LABEL=SWAP-hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/sda1 /media/Video ext3 pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/sda2 /media/Espresso ext3 pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/sda3 /media/dud23 ext3 pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
