[ale] kubuntu 10.04 LTS mount external drive as user

[James Sumners]

Yeah, I should have read the man page before answering. Applying
chown/chgrp recursively to the drive should have been my response.

2010/7/19 Björn Gustafsson <bg-ale at bjorng.net>:
> 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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James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59