drives mounting as root.

[leona]

Hi There

I do not know if this is expected behavour, but I have recently been having trouble with external drives, usb sticks, FAT32 drives etc.

Basically it keeps telling me I don't have permission to access them, when I look at the directories in /media they are all 'root' as user and group, why is this? is it right? if not, how do I correct it? I need everyone to be able to access these drives. I don't know why it worked one day then didn't the next, I don't understand why things change without me doing anything.

The drives are ok, if I load a terminal window and log in as root I can access them fine, so all the data and drives are ok, but no users can see them.



32 drwx------ 38 root root 32768 1970-01-01 01:00 DATA
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2008-05-26 16:13 cdrom0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2008-05-26 16:13 cdrom -> cdrom0
4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root 999 4096 2008-05-26 16:13 floppy0
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 999 7 2008-05-26 16:13 floppy -> floppy0
4 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-06-02 07:57 SD2GIG
4 drwxrwxrwx 8 root root 4096 2009-04-02 17:48 disk


As you can see 'DATA' (FAT32 Partition) & SD2GIG (pen drive) is only accessible by root, had the same problem with 'disk' (removable hard drive) so I 'fudged' that with su root chmod 777 disk, but that isn't working for 'DATA' and I don't know why, I am sure I am not supposed to do it like this, but I know no other way to fix the problem.

I need to ensure that any connected to my machine is viewable by all users, having it stuck to root is of no use to me.

Thank you

Leona.

[taurus]

Can you remount it from a terminal, assuming it is /dev/sda2?


sudo umount /media/DATA
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda2 /media/DATA -o umask=000
ls -la /media

[leona]

Thank you taurus, that did work, will this remain or will I have to run this every time I log on?
Will i have to do this each time I plug a new device in?

[taurus]

Do you have an entry to mount that partition, whichever that is, to /media/DATA in /etc/fstab?


cat /etc/fstab

[leona]

Hi taurus, interesting, there is no entry in fstab for these drives, can one be added?
Just looking at it, how do I work out what 'dev' it is?

[taurus]

Edit /etc/fstab


gksudo gedit /etc/fstab
and add this line to the end of it.


/dev/sda2 /media/DATA vfat iocharset=utf8,umask=000 0 0
Save it and reboot. Now, see if /dev/sda2 is really mounted to /media/DATA.


ls -la /media/DATA
And if you're not sure which device it is, post the outputs of these commands.


sudo fdisk -l
cat /etc/fstab
df -h

[leona]

Thanks taurus

Outputs from the commands are as follows.



sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd9a5d9a5

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1275 10241406 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 1276 19457 146046915 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1276 8855 60886318+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 8856 11915 24579418+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda7 11916 12049 1076323+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 12050 14017 15807928+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 14018 18912 39319056 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 18913 19457 4377681 82 Linux swap / Solaris




cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda8
UUID=89a24bda-e31b-4205-a711-d95170b5eff8 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=0e672aef-12b9-44ed-ac27-bf9b6f9bf0ab /boot ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda9
UUID=0a19f1ca-c309-4a0f-adbc-74b216ea839a /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda10
UUID=7f891555-ff67-4138-904a-8c275340851f none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0





df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda8 15G 4.7G 9.6G 33% /
varrun 1007M 228K 1007M 1% /var/run
varlock 1007M 0 1007M 0% /var/lock
procbususb 1007M 80K 1007M 1% /proc/bus/usb
udev 1007M 80K 1007M 1% /dev
devshm 1007M 116K 1007M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1007M 44M 963M 5% /lib/modules/2.6.24-23-generic/volatile
/dev/sda7 1.1G 162M 829M 17% /boot
/dev/sda9 37G 26G 12G 69% /home
gvfs-fuse-daemon 15G 4.7G 9.6G 33% /home/leona/.gvfs


Looks like /dev/sda5 is the one I need, is that right?

Thanks.