Public bug reported:
I'm using GNOME in gutsy beta and I have a USB SD card reader that
remains plugged into a USB port while various SD cards are plugged in
and taken out of it. I decided to set the mount to synchronous in case I
forget to unmount before removing a volume, by entering the "sync" drive
mount option into its properties in nautilus. That resulted in every SD
I inserted after that being owned by root and not allowing me to write.
If I take the sync option out and reinsert the card the behaviour
reverts to normal.
As I see it, setting the "sync" option should not influence the other
mount options, it should just make the mount synchronous, in addition to
whatever it was before.
I found this workaround:
*with the card inserted, open terminal and run "mount | grep sda"
*Copy each mount option displayed to the drive mount options (I used
gconf-editor for this step)
*add sync to that list of drive mount options
*reinsert the card (after doing an unmount)
However, I'm not happy with this, as it means that changes to the
default mount options (say, hypothetically, a "flush" option in hardy)
won't be carried over to this drive should they change. Also, it's a
pain to set this up for each cardreader to be plugged into the system. I
haven't tested this with a USB key, but it's worth investigating whether
the behaviour carries over.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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"sync" drive mount option resets other options
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/153259
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