FC3: Problems with mounting USB harddisk

[Stephan Groß]

Hi,

I'm trying to use my external USB harddisk under FC3. When I plug in the disk 
it is recognized by hald and the /etc/fstab is (correctly) modified (see 
attachment). But if an unpriviledged user mounts one of the ext3 partitions 
he only has read access but no write access on it. Only root is alowed to 
read AND write to the partition. If the partition is formated as FAT the user 
mounting it has both read and write access to it. Short question: Is it 
possible to get read-write access for ext3 partitions and if yes, how must I 
adjust my config?

Thank you for some advice.

Regards,
Stephan.

[Terry Polzin]

On Thursday 09 December 2004 15:57, Stephan Groß wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to use my external USB harddisk under FC3. When I plug in the
>  disk it is recognized by hald and the /etc/fstab is (correctly) modified
>  (see attachment). But if an unpriviledged user mounts one of the ext3
>  partitions he only has read access but no write access on it. Only root is
>  alowed to read AND write to the partition. If the partition is formated as
>  FAT the user mounting it has both read and write access to it. Short
>  question: Is it possible to get read-write access for ext3 partitions and
>  if yes, how must I adjust my config?
>
>  Thank you for some advice.
>
>  Regards,
>  Stephan. 

What are the permissions on

/media
/media/usbdisk

[Stephan Groß]

Am Donnerstag, 9. Dezember 2004 22:06 schrieb Terry Polzin:

First of all, with this last posting I am moving my enquiry to fedora-list as 
I seem to bother some guys on this list with an FC3 topic. I am sorry for 
being off-topic here though I believe this problem still persists in FC4 (I 
do not have the time to test this).

>  On Thursday 09 December 2004 15:57, Stephan Groß wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > I'm trying to use my external USB harddisk under FC3. When I plug in the
>  > disk it is recognized by hald and the /etc/fstab is (correctly) modified
>  > (see attachment). But if an unpriviledged user mounts one of the ext3
>  > partitions he only has read access but no write access on it. Only root
>  > is alowed to read AND write to the partition. If the partition is
>  > formated as FAT the user mounting it has both read and write access to
>  > it. Short question: Is it possible to get read-write access for ext3
>  > partitions and if yes, how must I adjust my config?
>  >
>  > Thank you for some advice.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  > Stephan.
>
>  What are the permissions on
>
>  /media
>  /media/usbdisk 
They are (of course) owned by root and only writable for root but if I mount a 
FAT-partition, the ownership is changed automatically to the user who mounted 
it. So, to render my question more precisely: Why isn't the ownership of a 
mounted ext3 partition not ajusted to the id of the mounting user?

Regards,
Stephan.

[Féliciano Matias]

Le vendredi 10 décembre 2004 à 09:20 +0100, Stephan Groß a écrit :
>  They are (of course) owned by root and only writable for root but if
> I mount a 
>  FAT-partition, the ownership is changed automatically to the user who mounted 
>  it. So, to render my question more precisely: Why isn't the ownership of a 
>  mounted ext3 partition not ajusted to the id of the mounting user? 
With ext3, each file have its own permission set.
FAT don't have permission per file.