On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 11:31:19AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > Le sextidi 6 germinal, an CCXXV, Mark Fletcher a écrit : > > Yeah I guess so, but chmod or chown of WHAT, though? > > Of the root directory of the drive, i.e. the directory where it is > mounted: chown you /media/mark/drive while it is mounted. > Thanks for the quick reply. I've got mixed success to report from that.
When I plug in the device, open Files manually, click on "8.1GB Encrypted" and supply the passphrase, it mounts the drive at /media/mark/really-long-string-of-letters-and-numbers That was owned by root. I did chown mark:mark <same really long string of letters and numbers> and verified the ownership had changed. Everything inside that directory, ie on the drive, is already owned by user mark. And to confirm, I am logged into Gnome as mark. After executing that chown command and before ejecting the drive, the "New Folder" etc commands on the Files right-click menu were enabled, where previously they had been disabled, suggesting Files now felt it could write to the disk. I ejected the volume. The really long string of letters and numbers in /media/mark disappeared, as expected. I removed the drive and re-inserted it. No response from Gnome. I fired up Files again manually, and saw "8.1GB Encryted" as before. Clicking on that and supplying the passphrase mounted the device, as before. Again it is mounted in /media/mark/blahdiblahdiblah (this time it was /media/mark/138b9d59-b0cd-49cc-a738-8fecea5f0035 to be precise, I am not sure if that is identical to before but suspect so). That directory in /media/mark was owned by... mark this time! BUT, Files has the New Folder command greyed out, indicating it does NOT think it can write to this device. And I cannot paste anything into the device's pane in Files. BUT AGAIN, at the command line, as mark, I went into /media/mark/138b9d59-b0cd-49cc-a738-8fecea5f0035 and typed touch test.txt and lo and behold the file was created. So now I have a confused Files / Nautilus on top of everything else... So perms are fixed in fact but not according to the Files application. And detection and auto-prompting for the passphrase on connect is not working for this device but is working for the identical one I formatted properly with Files. I'd like to un-confuse Files and get autodetection working. Mark