On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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.
I find this acceptable. At least my sourc
Ed Greshko wrote:
> 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
Original Message
Subject: Re: USB stick with ext2?
From: Bryn M. Reeves
To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora.
Date: 01/06/2009 06:12 AM
No - ext2/3/4's root inodes are just regular directories and can be
owned by any user as Ed al
Michael Cronenworth wrote:
Alan Evans wrote:
Is there a way to make that work
Yes. Make a directory on the stick with your user permissions. The "/"
of the usb drive will always be owned by root through HAL/dbus/gvfs
No - ext2/3/4's root inodes are just regular directories and can be
owned
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/sd
Alan Evans wrote:
Is there a way to make that work
Yes. Make a directory on the stick with your user permissions. The "/"
of the usb drive will always be owned by root through HAL/dbus/gvfs
AFAIK. You could setup a special fstab line for manual mounting without
requiring a folder, but I don'
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,n
