[ale] kubuntu 10.04 LTS mount external drive as user

[J. D.]

That makes sense. I believe I have used some uid/gid options for ntfs and
samba mounts in the past. No wonder I was having trouble.

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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