Bug 451072 - External ext3 drive mounted with wrong permissions
Summary: External ext3 drive mounted with wrong permissions
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-mount
Version: 9
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: David Zeuthen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-06-12 17:11 UTC by Adam Huffman
Modified: 2013-03-06 03:56 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-06-12 17:58:40 UTC
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Description Adam Huffman 2008-06-12 17:11:25 UTC
Description of problem:
When I connect an external hard drive formatted as ext3, it is mounted but the
permissions are incorrect - my normal user cannot write to it.  This seems to be
related to the lack of a default option for ext3 filesystems in the gconf key
/system/storage/default_options

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-mount-0.8-1.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect external drive formatted as ext3
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Drive mounted so only root can write to it

Expected results:
Drive should be mounted so that normal users can write to it

Additional info:

Directory listing for /media

total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 2008-06-12 14:54 disk
drwxr-xr-x 2 adam root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 disk-1

disk is the ext3 hard drive, disk-1 is a vfat USB stick

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2008-06-12 17:58:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> When I connect an external hard drive formatted as ext3, it is mounted but the
> permissions are incorrect - my normal user cannot write to it.  This seems to be
> related to the lack of a default option for ext3 filesystems in the gconf key
> /system/storage/default_options

Not a bug; there's no mount option for you to take permissions; you need to
become uid 0 and then chown the contents yourself. Future disk utilities will be
able to do this for you at fs creation time; right now it looks like this

 http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/gdu-take-ownership.png


Comment 2 Adam Huffman 2008-06-13 10:37:10 UTC
Well, I would say it is a bug in the sense that gnome-mount lacks a capability
it should have - to the user concerned it was somewhat disconcerting that
automounting of a drive worked with vfat but not with ext3.  Will the future
solution propose work for already created filesystems?  If not, is there another
workaround e.g. for users who don't have root access on their machines?


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