I am trying to use my ext4 USB drive but Ubuntu 13 is currently mounting it with write permission only for root so with my normal user I can't write to it, without sudo.
The first place I checked was dconf-editor
which has the following options
- automount
- automount-open
- autorun-never
- autorun-x-content-ignore
- autorun-x-content-open-folder
- autorun-x-content-start-app
and it seems to me there should be an option in there to control if I can write to the mounted USB drive, but no.
I also made sure my user is in the relevant groups: fuse
and plugdev
I've searched most of the internet and can't find a solution to change the permissions given by the mount operation. There's literally nobody out there having this problem incredibly. A ton of people have issues because their drives mounts totally read-only, but not this way with only root write permission.
I can't see any way of controlling what happens. I looked at setting the mount options using gnome-disks
but drew a blank.
It's not in fstab
but it does appear in the mount
list or /etc/mtab:
/dev/sdb1 /media/adam/WDPassport2T ext4 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2 0 0
This is what appears in syslog if it helps:
kernel: [111522.196770] usb 2-1: USB disconnect, device number 6
kernel: [111525.384020] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci-pci
kernel: [111525.565220] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1058, idProduct=0820
kernel: [111525.565225] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=5
kernel: [111525.565227] usb 2-1: Product: My Passport 0820
kernel: [111525.565229] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Western Digital
kernel: [111525.565231] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 575832314141334A34383631
kernel: [111525.565729] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
kernel: [111525.566203] scsi9 : usb-storage 2-1:1.0
mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 7: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1"
mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 7 was not an MTP device
kernel: [111526.564697] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access WD My Passport 0820 1007 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
kernel: [111526.565063] scsi 9:0:0:1: Enclosure WD SES Device 1007 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
kernel: [111526.568096] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
kernel: [111526.568202] ses 9:0:0:1: Attached Enclosure device
kernel: [111526.568263] ses 9:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 13
kernel: [111531.263108] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] 3906963456 512-byte logical blocks: (2.00 TB/1.81 TiB)
kernel: [111531.265100] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
kernel: [111531.265105] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 47 00 10 08
kernel: [111531.266473] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
kernel: [111531.266479] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
kernel: [111531.272224] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
kernel: [111531.272230] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
kernel: [111531.284885] sdb: sdb1
kernel: [111531.288219] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found
kernel: [111531.288223] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
kernel: [111531.288227] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
kernel: [111531.751588] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
udisksd[3131]: Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /media/adam/WDPassport2T on behalf of uid 1000
sudo umount /dev/sdb1
, and then mounting it as a normal user. Themtab
entry hasuser=adam
, which should mean useradam
can use it...gvfs-mount -d /dev/sdb1
should mount the drive, also shouldudisks --mount /dev/sda5
. These should not require the root password, as they use thegvfsd
entry to allow access.ls -ld /media/adam/WDPassport2T
andls -l /media/adam/WDPassport2T
output?