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 _______________________________________________ NZLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.linux.net.nz/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nzlug