[ale] another weird problem

[Jeremy T. Bouse]

	This might seem trivial but what distro are you running are are you
working within the X11 GUI? Reason I ask is I know on both Fedora and
Debian using the GNOME desktop environment I've never had a problem so
far with them being able to mount the drive and having read-write access
as the user I'm logged in as. Working with ext2, ext3 and FATxx formated
USB drives.

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
> perms on thumb drives
> 
> I have a directory /mnt/foo
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  2 kilpatms users  4096 Jul  6 18:28 foo
> 
> I mount my thumb drive to that point and the ownership changes:
> 
> drwxr-xr-x  4 root     root  16384 Dec 31  1969 foo
> 
> and I can't change them back while the drive is mounted, which means
> that is, ah, "difficult" to drag and drop files from my desktop
> into that directory (open window on the desktop).  Nor can I change
> the perms; notice that only root can write to the drive.
> And, yes, I have been trying to run chmod and chown as root.
> 
> Does anyone have a clue what might be going on here and how to fix it?
> 
> Sean
>