Question concerning Hal, autofs, USB hard disks and ext2 fs
Oliver Andrich
oliver.andrich at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 22:41:58 UTC 2006
Hello,
after using Fedora Core 4 for a while and enjoying the integration of my
various USB sticks and devices, I am currently looking into attaching a
USB hard disk. Well, it basically works. I attach the device, turn it on
and then the available partition gets mounted. So far so good.
First of all I would like to use ext2 on the disk, cause fat32
feels a little bit strange to me. It is okay for USB Sticks and stuff,
but not for a 250GB USB disk I want to use for backup and external
storage. No problem, I can format the disk with ext2.
But here my problems and questions start:
- Why is a fat32 disk mounted under a mount point that is owned by the
current user?
- Why isn't this the case with ext2 formated disks?
- The result is, that I have an attached, mounted and ext 2 formatted
USB disk, but contrary to the experience with fat formatted device, I
am not able to access the device as the user I am currently locked in.
Okay, I can do all the stuff I want as root, but why shall I want to
do it? What I expect as a user is, that I can just use the disk as I
would do with a fat disk.
I am perfectly aware, that ext2 has some other requirements and
possibilities compared to fat32. But all this is irrelevant for a usb
disk in my eyes. I just want the realiability of ext2.
So, my question is, how can I change the behaviour of mounting an ext2
usb disk in such a way, that it is comparable to the way a fat32 disk is
mounted?
I hope my question and thinking behind it is understandable.
Best regards,
Oliver Andrich
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