Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
081201 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:10:00 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> in /etc/fstab I have : >> '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' >> I reformat USB sticks to a Linux fs, as 'fat' seems to reduce capacity. > You didn't mention that before: it was reasonable to assu

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:10:00 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > >> in /etc/fstab I have : '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto > >> noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' (I never use > 1 USB device at a time, > >> so this is ok). > > > You can include the mountoption uid= gid= . > > According to 'man mount', they are

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
081201 Justin wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> Something keeps resetting the permission for /mnt/usb to 755 , >> which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user. / sb 'writing' >> My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:haldaemon,purslow'; >> in /etc/fstab I

Re: [gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Justin
Philip Webb schrieb: > Something keeps resetting the permission for /mnt/usb to 755 , > which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user. > My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:haldaemon,purslow'; > in /etc/fstab I have : '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' > (I never

[gentoo-user] USB permissions glitch

2008-12-01 Thread Philip Webb
Something keeps resetting the permission for /mnt/usb to 755 , which prevents me accessing a USB storage stick as user. My user is in the USB group : 'usb:x:85:haldaemon,purslow'; in /etc/fstab I have : '/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0' (I never use > 1 USB device at a time