On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:34:32PM -0400, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Paul M Foster on Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 09:04PM -0400:
> > On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:30:52PM -0400, Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> >
> > > Spake Paul M Foster on Sunday, July 18, 2004 at 06:56PM -0400:
> > > > This seems like a really dumb question to me, but for some reason I
> > > > can't figure it out. As a regular user, I want to mount, unmount and
> > > > write to my floppy drive.
> > > >
> > > > The mount and unmount parts work fine with sudo. It's copying files to
> > > > the floppy that present the problem. The floppy (and other devices) are
> > > > mounted at the /media hierarchy. I've set all these directories to
> > > > root.disk ownership, with group write permissions, and I'm in the disk
> > > > group. But when the floppy _mounts_, it has root.root ownership and the
> > > > group write permissions are gone.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Looks like you need the "user" option in fstab or to the mount
> > > command. Also possibly you want to use uid=0,gid=$GID_OF_DISC.
> >
> > I already have "user" as an option for the mount command. This option
> > only applies to mounting and unmounting (which work fine), according to
> > the man page.
> >
> > The uid/gid options only work with msdos, fat and vfat options. Using
> > them with ext2 garners an error message and failure to mount.
> >
>
> Oh, an ext2 floppy? Nifty. Unless you leave it in the drive
> when the computer reboots (Well, just a black screen and having to
> control-alt-del).
>
> In that case, mount the floppy, chown -R root.disk /media/floppy,
> and you're set. Now just pray that group "disk" has the same gid on every
> system that
> this floppy is going to be on. :)
Er, um, well I didn't want to go through a lot of after-the-fact
permission-whacking.
There does appear to be a solution; I just don't like it much. You can
give the mount point 777 permissions. Then it appears to allow writing
by a user. I think there's some interaction here with the umask, which
is usually 022. But I didn't want to take the time to do all the
experimentation to work that out.
Paul
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