Martin, although you're right about this Unix filesystems nature, hal is
now automounting them in a dynamic mountpoint (like /media/disk), and so
it is the responsible of assigning the right permissions on that
mountpoint. The problem is that the permissions are too strong, so
anybody except root couldn't write on the filesystem.

The workaround could be to fix hal so it assigns 777 permissions BY
DEFAULT in the mountpoint, so the filesystem have read/write permissions
*by default* into the filesystem to anybody. Later, if the sysadmin
wants, he could do chmod, chown or even touch the /etc/fstab file if he
wants to fine-tune the mount permissions & options, weakening the
default permissions.

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Mounted ext3 file systems are not writable by users
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382074
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