UPDATE: (solved- sort of} See my answer below
I have 2 identical USB drives which I've both formatted to identical specs using Gparted. Both have two identical primary partitions (ext4 and ntfs).
I have not created any mount-point directories for them.
(An afterthougt: actually I did, but deleted them, so there are none now. and I did manually mount them (as a test)... Maybe(?) this has done something(?) but there are now no "created-by-me" directories in /media, for these USB drives)There is no mention of them in /etc/fstab.
I want them to auto-mount, and I'd expect them to mount identically...
...but for some reason, the ext4 partitions are mounting with different permissions and different group.
As can be expected with root:root ownership, and no write permission for group/other, it is causing my rsync backup to fail (for usb2).
What might be causing these different mount settings?... (I'm using 10.04)
rsync: failed to set times on "/media/usb2ext4/.": Operation not permitted (1)
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/media/usb2ext4/.Trash-1000" failed: Permission denied (13)
Skipping any contents from this failed directory
usb1: 'sudo fdisk -l' -and- 'ls -l /media'
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdd1 1 108547 871903746 83 Linux
/dev/sdd2 108548 121601 104856255 7 HPFS/NTFS
drwxrwxr-x 31 root fred 4096 2010-12-17 15:30 usb1ext4
drwx------ 1 fred fred 4096 2010-12-16 14:04 usb1ntfs
usb2: 'sudo fdisk -l' -and- 'ls -l /media'
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 1 108547 871903746 83 Linux
/dev/sde2 108548 121601 104856255 7 HPFS/NTFS
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-12-17 10:19 usb2ext4
drwx------ 1 fred fred 4096 2010-12-16 14:04 usb2ntfs