Re: USB ownership
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com> wrote:
> From: Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>
> Subject: Re: USB ownership
> To: deloptes@yahoo.com
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 12:48 PM
> Emanoil Kotsev wrote:
> > Paul Cartwright wrote:
> >
> >> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> >>> On Mon,20.Oct.08, 17:06:25, Emanoil Kotsev
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I suggested to use device by uuid
> >>>>
> >>>>
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/3fca395b-d75d-44ab-98be-9ec05b2e45fd
> >>>> /media/usb_2G_part3 auto
> users,noauto,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
> >>>
> >>> You can shorten this a bit:
> >>>
> >>> UUID=3fca....
> >>>
> >>> It's not much, but given that the UUID is
> already very long...
> >>>
> >> here is my /etc/fstab entry ( that works)
> >> UUID=686C-7E81 /media/usb_DAWGS vfat
> >> users,atime,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noauto 0 0
> >>
> >> ( that was all one line)
> >>
> >> in the /media folder is a file called .hal-mtab
> >> I was trying to add an entry in there for this, so
> my wife could unmount
> >> it, but I was not successful. The fstab entry
> still mounts it:
> >>
> >> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-08-16 15:14
> usb_DAWGS
> >>
> >>
> >
> > For me the UUID= entry did not work
> >
> > The /dev/disk/by-uuid work
> >
> > Paul, the .hal entries are system entries they do not
> have to be set in
> > fstab
> >
> I tried adding that /dev/disk/by-uuid entry to .hal-mtab ,
> but no change.
> I think the REAL way to do it would be with a
> /etc/udev/rules.d entry,
> but after looking at man udev and the 50.udev-rules file,
> it is way over
> my head. I give up. I'll just have to tell her to
> switch to my user to
> add entries, since I seem to own everything inserted.
>
>
I don't think you have to mess up with the .hal entries
the correct place would be /etc/fstab
you need the /dev/disk .... entry in the fstab file
I've tried it as I said it didn't work with UUID but with this entry in the /etc/fstab file all was fine
regards
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