Re: USB Drive weirdness

yuri <[email protected]>
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On 12 October 2011 09:48, Nevyn wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Running Ubuntu 10.04 - I have a 2TB usb drive. When I plug it in, it mounts
> it in /media and brings up a nautilus window. Cool... only.... it seems to
> mount it as root. Plug in a usb stick (4GB) and it mounts it as myself...
>
> Does anyone know why it has this particular inconsistency this and how to
> customise it? I'm assuming this is a function of Gnome given that it doesn't
> happen if logged into the terminal...

Okay, I'm going to make a wild guess.
My theory is - if the filesystem on the removable media does not
support unix-style permissions, it gets mounted as user. Otherwise it
gets mounted as root.

Looking forward to correction,
Yuri de Groot

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