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
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.