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
(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
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?