Been using Ubuntu for a couple weeks now with some minor annoyances. The main one is that I can't get any USB keys to work. When I insert one, I get a message saying "you don't have permissions to mount that device". If I drop to the command line and mount it with sudo it works, but then I can't unmount it. Right-clicking on the mount point and selecting "unmount" results in a "that device is not mounted" error. And even though the file explorer showed the files being copied over, they aren't actually on the key.
Secondly, the FAT32 USB key I formatted in Ubuntu is not readable by windows. I tried reformatting it with windows but I got an "Windows cannot finish formatting this device" error. WTF? I thought all OSes could read and write to FAT partitions. These two problems alone are making me reconsider my switch. I can understand the need to not run as root all the time but mounting USB keys should not be one of them. And no, there is not any U3 crapware on my USB key. I nuked it using a partition editor a while ago under windows. Now THAT was a painful experience. But this problem happens with the 6 different USB keys I have tried, some with U3 and some without. -- Brian Find my public PGP key at http://pgp.mit.edu/
