Public bug reported:
On a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 32 bit, not an upgrade, all
USB VFAT drives I've tried mount with root access only which means I can
not create or edit files or folders on these drives. The workaround I
found was to use the Disk Utility to unmount and then mount the drives.
This changed permissions on the drives to my login. However every time
the system is rebooted the USB VFAT drives mount with root permissions
only and the same procedure with Disk Utility has to be repeated for all
the VFAT usb drives, same as before. The problem does not occur on the
same drives, on the same system with ubuntu 9.10 Desktop 32 bit. The
drives mount with permissions for me every time with Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop
32 bit.
Examining fstab I noticed there is a line in it in Ubuntu 9.10 that is
not present in Ubuntu 10.04 with respect to mounting usb drives. That
line is:
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,devmode=0666 0 0
Placed that line in fstab in the 10.04 load and found the system would
not boot without bypassing that line. The choice was to skip processing
that line or manually attempt to force it.
Anyone installing a VFAT usb drive who encounters this symtom will not
be able to copy files to the drive, nor edit existing files or folders
at all without using the Disk Utility workaround I discovered.
Have no idea what packages are involved in this. It's a problem mounting
VFAT usb drives for sure. Haven't tried NTFS or EXT type usb file
systems.
Simply pulling out the drive connector and re-installing it does not fix
the problem. Drive Utility must be used.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Ubuntu 10.04 - VFAT usb drives mount with root access only
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573981
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