Re: USB ownership
Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/10/17 Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>:
>> My wife plugged in a USB stick, to save a file to it. It would not let
>> her save a file, permission denied. I looked at the ownership of
>> /media/disk ( /dev/sdg1) and it showed me as the owner with group as root:
>> pbc@paulandcilla:/media$ ls -l /media/disk
>> total 208
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbc root 36352 2008-10-02 21:19 FILE_1
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbc root 16408 2008-10-02 21:39 FILE_2
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbc root 104960 2008-10-17 07:00 FILE_3
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 pbc root 12830 2008-10-17 07:00 FILE_4
>>
>> I am logged in first, vt7, she is logged in 2nd, vt8, and when I
>> switched to my login, there was the disk window open ( /media/disk).
>>
>> What do I have to do to get it to recognize her as the owner, when she
>> plugs in a USB stick in her login?
>
>
> Paul, this usually happens when the disk was not removed properly (not
> unmounted) from Windows. Check the system log, you will see that the
> USB filesystem is panicing. Plug the drive into another Windows
> machine, perform a write operation (delete or create a file), and then
> unmount it properly.
>
thanks, I'll let her know!
I looked in /var/log/messages and it didn't say anything about
ownership, though it did say write protect was off..
Oct 17 04:42:12 paulandcilla -- MARK --
Oct 17 04:59:33 paulandcilla kernel: [1876057.054231] usb 3-4: new high
speed US
B device using ehci_hcd and address 11
Oct 17 04:59:34 paulandcilla kernel: [1876057.198854] usb 3-4:
configuration #1
chosen from 1 choice
Oct 17 04:59:34 paulandcilla kernel: [1876057.203136] scsi8 : SCSI
emulation for
USB Mass Storage devices
Oct 17 04:59:34 paulandcilla kernel: [1876057.203136] usb 3-4: New USB
device fo
und, idVendor=0930, idProduct=6545
Oct 17 04:59:34 paulandcilla kernel: [1876057.203136] usb 3-4: New USB
device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Oct 17 04:59:34 paulandcilla kernel: [1876057.203136] usb 3-4: Product:
USB Flash Memory
Oct 17 04:59:34 paulandcilla kernel: [1876057.203136] usb 3-4:
Manufacturer:
Oct 17 04:59:34 paulandcilla kernel: [1876057.203136] usb 3-4:
SerialNumber: 5B8
50A0002E5
Oct 17 04:59:39 paulandcilla kernel: [1876062.600106] scsi 8:0:0:0:
Direct-Access USB Flash Memory PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Oct 17 04:59:40 paulandcilla kernel: [1876064.017070] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdg]
7827456
512-byte hardware sectors (4008 MB)
Oct 17 04:59:40 paulandcilla kernel: [1876064.017070] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdg]
Write Protect is off
Oct 17 04:59:40 paulandcilla kernel: [1876064.017070] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdg]
7827456
512-byte hardware sectors (4008 MB)
Oct 17 04:59:40 paulandcilla kernel: [1876064.017070] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdg]
Write Pr
otect is off
Oct 17 04:59:40 paulandcilla kernel: [1876064.017070] sdg: sdg1
Oct 17 04:59:40 paulandcilla kernel: [1876064.065289] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdg]
Attached SCSI removable disk
Oct 17 04:59:40 paulandcilla kernel: [1876064.065289] sd 8:0:0:0:
Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
Oct 17 05:22:12 paulandcilla -- MARK --
Oct 17 05:42:12 paulandcilla -- MARK --
Oct 17 06:02:12 paulandcilla -- MARK --
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