On 26/11/2020 16:35, Joe Zeff wrote:
On 11/26/20 12:34 AM, Ed Greshko wrote:
FWIW, I have a Ubuntu VM and the same flash drive that I used on Fedora works the same way on
it. The system mounts it for me, as me. It is ubuntu 20.04 if that makes any difference.
Most of the time, flash drives mount properly for my sister too. Once in a while this comes up for her and/or for me, and I was hoping to get a handle on how to deal with the issue once and for all.
The next time it happens to you check which file system type is on the drive.
FAT and VFAT don't have ownership written to them as Samuel explained. And, as I said, I've never
encountered issues with them.
However, file systems such as ext4 do carry ownership information.
So, if a flash drive was formatted with ext4 and not previously mounted, or ownership
wasn't established it would mount as root:root
I have a flash drive which was formatted ext4 and used by maria who changed the top level ownership.
So, when I plug it in and hit "mount" it get mounted....
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ whoami
egreshko
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ df -T | grep media
/dev/sdg1 ext4 7654088 17232 7228332 1% /run/media/egreshko/ADrive
[egreshko@meimei ~]$ ll -d /run/media/egreshko/ADrive
drwxr-xr-x. 3 maria maria 4096 Nov 26 16:46 /run/media/egreshko/ADrive
The expected behavior.
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