Forget about it. The problem is that user2 does not have access to user1 directories. I guess giving a *$ chmod -R 777 /media/user1/disk* solves this problem...
2015-04-19 9:50 GMT-03:00 Andre Campos Rodovalho <andre.rodova...@gmail.com> : > "The specified directory '/media/user1/disk' is not valid." > > This means the directory does not exists isn't it? You can create it and > give ownership to user, and maybe a 777 mod... > > > > 2015-04-18 21:24 GMT-03:00 Israel <israeld...@gmail.com>: > >> On 04/18/2015 06:10 PM, John Hupp wrote: >> >> I installed Lubuntu 14.04 for someone who had an XP-era PC. He also has >> a really, really old offline PC that he uses for a few familiar programs, >> and wants to ferry some files back and forth between the two PC's using >> floppies. >> >> This should be no problem, except that the floppy mounts in Lubuntu with >> root ownership, and only root can change content, so ordinary users cannot >> copy files to or edit files on a floppy. >> >> Someone somewhere (!) reported that the behavior could be duplicated in a >> virtual machine with no actual floppy drive. >> >> Design behavior should be that the floppy mounts with the logged-in user >> as owner, which is what happens with USB flash drives. >> >> As far as I can tell, this is a new instance of a regression in the >> kernel and/or udisks2 that has previously been reported and fixed. >> >> See for instance: >> udisks2 mounts floppy disk as root >> <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63849> >> Bug fix released <http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/297> >> udisks2: mounts floppy always for root:root (not writable for normal >> users) <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740190> >> >> I couldn't figure out how to get floppies to mount with the logged-in >> user as owner, but I do have a sloppy workaround that sets a permission to >> allows anyone to change content on the floppy. This was inspired by >> comment #11 at Floppies mount fine, but can't seem to edit them in >> Xubuntu 14.04 <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2222487&page=2>. >> >> The sloppy workaround in my case is to add this line to /etc/fstab: >> /dev/fd0 /media/user1/disk vfat >> rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2,user,noauto,umask=0 0 0 >> >> This will work fine in a one-user installation, but it fails in a >> multi-user installation. With user2 as the logged in user, clicking on >> Floppy Disk in pcmanfm to mount it causes the error: >> The specified directory '/media/user1/disk' is not valid. >> >> I would be happy to hear about it if someone can come up with an improved >> workaround! >> >> >> Hi >> It should be possible to run: >> >> sudo umount /path/to/floppy >> sudo mkdir /media/floppy >> >> fd0 was taken from your e-mail... it may be different on other systems.. >> sudo mount -o users /dev/fd0 /media/floppy >> >> >> -- >> Regards >> >> >> -- >> Lubuntu-users mailing list >> Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users >> >> >
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