[ale] kubuntu 10.04 LTS mount external drive as user

[Björn Gustafsson]

Looks like you are mounting an ext2 or similar filesystem.  When the
filesystem actually captures file ownership in a way that Linux
understands, then the "user" mount option is meaningless, and the
uid=/gid= also don't work (as you found out).

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:46 PM, J. D. <jdonline at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey James,
>
> What is strange is that when I add in the uid and gid as you have
> illustrated I get a mount error.
>
> fstab:
> LABEL=firelite /media/firelite  auto rw,exec,user,uid=1000,gid=1000
> 0           0
>
> Here is the error:
> [14:44:08 myuser at megaton$] mount firelite
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so
> [/media]
> [14:44:37 myuser at megaton$32]
>
> Here is what I found in dmesg:
> [12300.997351] EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck
> is recommended
> [12300.997990] EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal
> [12300.998000] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
> [13240.544367] EXT3-fs: Unrecognized mount option "uid=1000" or missing
> value
> [13291.153157] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 15000 nsec
>
>
> It is as if uid=1000 is not a valid option for an ext3 filesystem.
>
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> LABEL=firelite /media/firelite  auto rw,user,exec,uid=123,gid=123
>>  0       0
>>
>> Change "123" to your actual user id and group id. They could be
>> different from each other. They are usually equal on Debian.
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:38 PM, J. D. <jdonline at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hey all,
>> >
>> > I have a little issue that seems simple but after some googling it
>> > continues
>> > to persist. I am trying to mount an external USB hard disk as my own
>> > user
>> > account and with my ownership.
>> > Here is my fstab entry:
>> >
>> > LABEL=firelite /media/firelite  auto rw,user,exec       0       0
>> >
>> > Now I can mount it as my regular user but root owns it!
>> >
>> > [13:32:56 myuser at megaton$] mount -L firelite
>> > [/media]
>> > [13:33:09 myuser at megaton$] ls -al
>> > total 20
>> > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 2010-07-19 11:53 .
>> > drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2010-07-01 11:47 ..
>> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2010-03-10 14:04 cdrom -> cdrom0
>> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2010-03-10 14:04 cdrom0
>> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   45 2010-03-10 14:04 .directory ->
>> > /etc/kubuntu-default-settings/directory-media
>> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4096 2010-07-19 09:17 firelite
>> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root    0 2010-07-19 10:32 .hal-mtab
>> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root   42 2010-03-10 14:04 .hidden ->
>> > /etc/kubuntu-default-settings/hidden-media
>> > [/media]
>> > [13:33:15 myuser at megaton$]
>> >
>> > Any idea how I can mount the drive with myser:myuser as the owner?
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > J. D.
>> >
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