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.
For example, my uid on my debian box is 1000, so:
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy -o uid=1000
% ls -ld /media/floppy
drwxr--r-- 4 dylan root 7168 Dec 31 1969 /media/floppy/
interesting timestamp.
to use gid= and be able to write to it,
do:
% sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /media/floppy -o gid=1000,umask=004
% ls -ld /media/floppy
drwxrwx-wx 4 root hardison 7168 Dec 31 1969 /media/floppy/
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