RE: [gentoo-user] k3b access rights

[Michael Kintzios]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Holly Bostick [mailto:motub@××××××.nl]
> Sent: 03 January 2006 08:31
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] k3b access rights
>
>
> I don't understand what your problem is, sorry. But I think that's
> because you haven't actually said what your problem is, or
> whether it's
> with K3b or general use of the drive.

Apologies, I was so immersed in it all that I _naturally_ expected
everybody else to be able to read my mind!

> You don't mount the cd/dvd in order to write to it with K3b (or
> whatever); iirc the application uses raw device access, but
> whether that
> is correct or not, you unquestionably don't mount the device to use a
> burning program. Nor do you mount the drive in order to play
> an audio CD
> (which also uses raw device access, which requires that the
> device *not*
> be mounted).

Thanks, I think I might have mounted the disk and then tried to delete
something on it.

> Second, for general use (video viewing, game playing, etc)
> what you most
> likely want is the "users" (note the "s" at the end) option, which
> allows any user to mount/unmount the drive, as opposed to just one:
>
> from man mount:
>
>  user   Allow  an  ordinary  user  to mount the file system.  The name
> of the mounting user is written to mtab so
>                      that he can unmount the file system again.  This
> option implies the options  noexec,  nosuid,  and  nodev
>                      (unless overridden by subsequent
> options, as in the
> option line user,exec,dev,suid).
>
> users  Allow  every  user to mount and unmount the file system.  This
> option implies the options noexec, nosuid,
>                      and nodev (unless overridden by
> subsequent options,
> as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid).

So if I want a single user at-a-time to be able to mount the DVD drives
I just enter user?  From memory I think I had concluded that adding the
uid was necessary for CDROMS and NTFS/VFAT fs partitions, otherwise it
was asking for fs type, or was coming up with "only root can do that"
type of errors.  Need to try this again and make some notes.

The problems that I have are probably two-fold.  The generic one is that
I am not sure I have the correct mount options in /etc/fstab and that I
created the /mnt/cdrw, /mnt/cdrom1 etc. mountpoints with the correct
access rights.  What are the default mount options and /mnt/mountpoints
access rights for DVD writer and DVDROM?  Ditto for NTFS?

The specific one is that I tried to delete a folder from a re-writable
CD: a)while I was browsing it in konqueror and b)using k3b, but it
couldn't do it.  I'll try again when I get home to see if it behaves as
expected after I ensure that it has not been mounted.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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