Patrick Shirkey wrote: > On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 23:30 -0600, David M. Creswick wrote: > >> On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:53:17 +0700 >> Patrick Shirkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Joern Nettingsmeier wrote: >>> >>>> Patrick Shirkey wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I can't find anything online that gives me a way to run /sbin/mkdosfs as >>>>> a normal user. >>>>> >>>>> Is it just that I need to add the user to the mkdosfs group or something >>>>> similar? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> are you sure the program itself prevents that? my guess is it's the >>>> device you want to create the file on. >>>> >>>> should be a matter of creating a new group disk_removable or something, >>>> writing an udev rule to give it r/w access to all floppies and usb >>>> sticks and add yourself to that group. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Thanks for the tip. >>> >>> I'm working on it now. >>> >>> However this seems like a major oversight from a Linux on the desktop >>> perspective that you need to be root user to format a removable disk. It >>> would make sense that Nautilus or Konqueror would have built in support >>> by now. >>> >>> Does anyone have experience with any distros/apps allowing this as >>> normal user? >>> >>> It seems like it should be a no brainer. >>> >>> >> I think Joern is correct in that all you need is read+write permissions >> on the device node. Under debian etch, the group is set to "floppy" for >> device nodes of removable usb storage devices. I imagine other distros >> do something similar. So the user should just have to be a member of >> the floppy (or equivalent) group to run mkdosfs on the device. >> >> >> > > Thanks for the tip. I ran this command: > > /usr/sbin/usermod -a -G floppy username > > On Fedora9 at least the floppy group does not control removeable disks. > > I also tried the disk group but nothing... > > Any other suggestions? > The solution appears to have been to reboot because now I can run mkdosfs as normal user.
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