Not usb sticks - external drive enclosures. The sticks seem to work just fine.. :) See my response to Neil...
Shawn Gustin Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > USB keys work for me these days. I just tried some keys that I don't > have mount points for (the ones that I do have mount points for I use > their UUIDs) and they worked as expected. What version of Ubuntu, which > ~ GUI environment, and what kernel version are you using? > > Did you perhaps rename the key? For example, a key I am looking at > right now is mounted as /media/Patriot which is what the partition was > named when I pulled it out of the box. I am guessing the udev scripts > make use of this name when creating a mount point. > > The mount option -o umask=000 is what has corrected this for me in the > past (usually with NTFS drives using ntfs-3g and its predecessors). > > Hth, > > Shawn wrote: > | I've seen this now on two different systems, so know it's a Ubuntu > | thing, and not a "shawn" thing... > | > | Plugging an external USB drive enclosure into the box. Ubuntu detects > | the drive and asks what I want to do with it - so I open the folder. I > | can read the contents, but cannot modify/write to the drive. The > | mounted drive is a FAT32 drive. > | > | Fist impression says just change the ownership on the mount point. > | Except that even as root I'm being told I can't. So I look at doing a > | chmod on the mount directory and no joy there either (sometimes). > | > | So my question is, what am I missing? Is there a group I can add my > | user too to get permission to these drives? Is there a simpler way? > | > | I *know* I can make this work by going to the command line and doing a > | manual mount, or adjusting permissions/ownership, or tweaking the udev > | rules, etc. But the idea is that these drives should just be "plug and > | play", without having to fuss with em. > | > | Any tips are appreciated. > | > | Shawn > | > | _______________________________________________ > | clug-talk mailing list > | [email protected] > | http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > | Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > | **Please remove these lines when replying > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFHmELqwRXgH3rKGfMRAi9rAKCep/8XseUp3LnB3URCqK9tUiJ4mQCffMbR > zoYxPMJPj0MaewQuEvcJurY= > =B0pF > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
