Alan Evans wrote: > Howdy! > > When I insert a USB thumb drive formatted with vfat, it gets > automagically mounted under /media with appropriate permissions so the > logged in user can write to the device. But if the thumb drive is > formatted ext2, only root can write to it. > > $ mount > /dev/sdb1 on /media/Devel type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal) > /dev/sdc1 on /media/disk type vfat > (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=500) > $ ll > total 20 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2009-01-05 21:27 Devel > drwxr-xr-x 3 alan root 16384 1969-12-31 16:00 disk > > Is there a way to make that work? > > > With the USB mounted become root.... Then "chown alan /media/disk". The ownership information is maintained in the ext2 structure. So, the next time it is mounted it will retain ownership by alan. -- Not SENSUOUS ... only "FROLICSOME" ... and in need of DENTAL WORK ... in PAIN!!! Mei-Mei.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=cCSz_koUhSg
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