On 09/01/14 15:30, Sudhir Khanger wrote:
Yes, the disk is being mounted as RW but not as a regular user.
On your system when mounting ext4 usb-storage through a graphical file
manager like Dolphin or Nautilus is it mounted under root:root user?
The disk gets mounted with permissions and ownership as stored in the file system when
using ext4. That is the way the filesystem works.
The command that I gave you "sudo chmod 1777 /run/media/donnie/storejet" will
make the filesystem be the same as /tmp.
[root@meimei ~]# ll -d /tmp
drwxrwxrwt. 16 root root 440 Sep 1 15:12 /tmp
This allows anyone to write to the file system and since the sticky bit is set (t) only
allows the owner of the file to delete it.
Now, if you want the file system to be mounted as a given user you can use the chown
command.
As an example.....
[root@meimei ~]# grep maria /etc/passwd
maria:x:1003:1003:Maria Yang:/home/maria:/bin/bash
[root@meimei ~]# ll -d /run/media/egreshko/ext
drwxr-xr-x. 3 maria maria 4096 Sep 1 06:29 /run/media/egreshko/ext
Now, every time that partition is mounted it will be mounted as owned by maria and group
maria. The downside with that is if you have system where the UID/GID aren't 1003.
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