Public bug reported:
Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Severity: Normal
Priority: (none set)
Status: Needs Info
Description:
Overview:
External USB disk (FAT32) is correctly detected and mounted but cannot be
written to from Nautilus.
Additional info:
1. mount
gives me
/dev/sda1 on /media/40GExternal type vfat
(rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gi
d=1000,umask=077,iocharset=utf
2. ls -ld of /media/40GExternal gives me:
drwx------ 14 warren warren 4096 1970-01-01 10:00 40GExternal
3. Output of dmesg:
[4299101.385000] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address
2[4299102.483000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[4299102.618000] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[4299102.619000] scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[4299102.620000] usb-storage: device found at 2
[4299102.620000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[4299102.621000] usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
[4299102.621000] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[4299107.625000] Vendor: HTS42404 Model: 0M9AT00 Rev: MA2O
[4299107.625000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
[4299107.632000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[4299107.743000] Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods
[4299107.752000] SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
[4299107.753000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4299107.760000] SCSI device sda: 78140160 512-byte hdwr sectors (40008 MB)
[4299107.760000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[4299107.760000] sda: sda1
[4299107.783000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[4299107.828000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[4299110.107000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems,
filesystem will be case sensitive!
Clearly, the automount works fine and adds the drive with permissions
*only* for the current user. However, Nautilus is not able to write to
the drive.
Given how well the detection and automount works, writing to the disk
should not require fiddling with /etc/fstab.
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Nautilus not able to write to FAT32 disk
https://launchpad.net/bugs/44175
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