*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 222626 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/222626
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 222626
ext3 partitions on external usb drives can only be written to by root
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Auto-mounted USB thumb drive only has user write permission if FAT16 or
[Expired for Ubuntu because there has been no activity for 60 days.]
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Auto-mounted USB thumb drive only has user write permission if FAT16 or FAT32
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121900
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I also have he himself problem. It is normal that ubuntu respects the
file permission/ownership in a hard disk ext3. In fact, I have formated
my hard disk USB with ext3 therefore. But the system of auto-mount does
not allow me to indicate to him that that device has right of rw for
certain user
This is likely to be a permission problem. Many filesystems commonly
used on flash drives (like vfat) do not have support for file
permission/ownership themselves. On modern distributions like Ubuntu,
fake permissions are put on top of these filesystems in such a way that
normal users have read
