On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 09/01/14 16:25, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >> The only way to tell if this is a mountain or a molehill is to try >> some other distribution. > > I guess you'll find no joy in Ubuntu..... Installed a test system and plugged in my drive and allowed it to be automounted.... > > egreshko@ubuntu:~$ mount | grep sdb1 > /dev/sdb1 on /media/egreshko/ext type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2) > > egreshko@ubuntu:~$ df -T /dev/sdb1 > Filesystem Type 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 ext4 115246568 61044 109308228 1% /media/egreshko/ext > > egreshko@ubuntu:~$ ll -d /media/egreshko/ext > drwxr-xr-x. 3 1029 65539 4096 9月 1 16:34 /media/egreshko/ext/ > > egreshko@ubuntu:~$ touch /media/egreshko/ext/x > touch: cannot touch ‘/media/egreshko/ext/x’: Permission denied > > Which is exactly what I would expect since my UID/GID on my Fedora systems is 1029/65539 and on the new Ubuntu system.... > > egreshko:x:1000:1000:Ed Greshko,,,:/home/egreshko:/bin/bash > I haven't had time to look into it myself but more I read about ext4 your tryst explaining me earlier becomes more clear that permissions persist with the filesystem. Now that I think more about it one possibility is that I use same username across systems which might have made it possible to mount with RW without superuser privileges. I also did following to the ext4 drive. chown $USER:$USER /run/media/$USER/storjet That is all I had to do and the drive seems to not give heartache anymore. Home user has all the privileges I need. Now time to run that attic-backup. Thanks again Ed. -- Regards, Sudhir Khanger. sudhirkhanger.com https://github.com/donniezazen -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org