Bug 144447

Summary:	Should the format button be active for user mountable usb-storage drives?
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jef Spaleta <jspaleta>
Component:	usermode	Assignee:	Jindrich Novy <jnovy>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Jef Spaleta 2005-01-07 05:06:16 UTC

Description of problem:
Using usermode-1.76-1 from development tree on an fc3 install
to avoid the unmountable problem in bug 139820

I am still unable to format my vfat usb keydrive.
I expected to be able to reformat the usb keydrive using usermount.
I am able to mount and unmount the drive.

I just don't know where the actual problem is.. is this a problem with
udev rules? or with hal? or with usermount? or with my expectations?
if i had a better idea of how console permissions evolved in the
udev/hal stack i'd have a better idea of where to file this. So I'm
filing here in the hopes of getting it tracked at least.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
usermode-1.76-1

How reproducible:
everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. plugin usb key-drive and let hal do its voodoo
2. run usermount
3. no active format button  

Actual results:
can't format the usb drive that I plugged in as a normal user

Expected results:
I should be able to blow away the data via a format on the usb
keydrive that i inserted.

Please advise as to where i should refile this if I need to do that.


-jef

Comment 1 Jindrich Novy 2005-01-11 12:54:46 UTC

Hello Jef,

you need to change owner of /dev/sda1 to the user/group you're in
instead of root. usermount refuses to format your usbdisk fact it
checks access permissions to devices on startup to detect whether they
can be formatted or not:

ret->writable = ((access(ret->dev, W_OK) == 0) || superuser);

and simply disables the Format button when this won't succeed.