Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

[Philip Webb]

081201 Justin wrote:
> Philip Webb schrieb:
>> Something keeps resetting the permission for  /mnt/usb  to  755 ,
>> which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user.
                     ///////// sb 'writing'
>> My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:haldaemon,purslow';
>> in /etc/fstab I have : '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0'
>> (I never use  > 1  USB device at a time, so this is ok).

> You can include the mountoption  uid=  gid= .

According to 'man mount', they are not available for 'ext2' (only 'fat').
I reformat USB sticks to a Linux fs, as 'fat' seems to reduce capacity.

>> Till last week, it worked as expected
>> & there's been no change in Udev rules.

In any case, that's not what I did to make it work before.

>> I've made a work-around by amending the Bash alias I use to mount it to
>>   alias musb='mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb ; chmod 777 /mnt/usb' ,
>> which does solve the problem, but is there a more conventional method ?

Does anyone have any other suggestions (thanks for this one) ?

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