Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: hal
A friend of mine (an average Ubuntu Jaunty user) recently bought a new
internal SATA hard disk. After installing and formatting it with ext3
filesystem, he complains about Ubuntu mounts it with read-only
permissions, so he can't write anything on it.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Install a new internal SATA hard disk into the computer.
2. Use Gparted to create a new ext3 partition into it.
3. Restart hal or reboot. The new drive is displayed in Places->Computer.
4. Click on the drive to mount it.
Result:
- The drive is mounted read-only. You can't create any folder or file on it.
- The mount point is /media/disk, with "root" owner, "root" group and
"rwxr-xr-x" permissions.
To gain write permissions into the drive, you must manually enter:
$ sudo chmod 777 /media/disk
Since then, you have full write access to the new drive, and hal
"remembers" the new permissions, so the write access is granted every
time you reboot, and you don't need to retype the chmod command every
time.
Therefore, I think hal should get 777 permissions by default on the
mountpoint of any new hard disk drive, like /media/disk and so. Without
that, an average user will not have full read/write access to the new
drive, minimizing his/her user experience and maximizing his/her
frustration.
** Affects: hal (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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New hard disk drive mounted read-only by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382074
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