Hi Chris, The "Changing default mount options" section at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/general/hal.html may help.
-- Rodolfo Martínez On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 6:39 AM, Chris Perry <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > I have used Debian for over a decade and can work most things out. But I > have a problem. > I use a usb memory card to take a rsync backup of my most important files > every day. This used to work perfectly. > > I recently upgraded from etch to lenny. After ironing out some wrinkles I > am left with one insoluble problem: > > The usb memory card is always auto mounted with group ownership of root at > the mount point. This stops me from refreshing the cards contents. > > In etch ownership after auomount would be chris:perry This is as expected > and worked fine. > In lenny ownership after automount is chris:root This is the problem. > > My primary group is still perry, btw. > > I have googled and searched far and wide, I cannot find posts that describe > adequately how hal and then udev get themselves sorted and apply some action > to perform the mount. I cannot work out where the action is defined in the > system config. I cannot work anything out, I've not been so stumped in a > long time. > > I have determined the following work-around to use after automount has > completed: > umount /media/TOSHIBA > mkdir /media/TOSHIBA > mount -t vfat -o > rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=lower,uid=1000,gid=1004 /dev/sdc1 > /media/TOSHIBA > > I am not able to determine the output of mount for the same device in etch. > My backup etch partition has passed on. > > If someone can point me at the right doco, or desribe how this works, I > would appreciate it. > Thanks and regards, > Chris. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
