Hi,
with OpenSuSE 11.4, my externals USB drives are mounted with user root. I can’t write any information on them.
Note that USB keys are mounted with my user account. Only drives are mounted read only with root account.
How can I fix that ? Is this a HAL problem ? A device plasma applet problem ?
Thank you for your ideas !
Emmanuel
Hi Emmanuel, a warm welcome here.
First: are you aware of the fact that there is no such thing as openSUSE 11.4 yet? You are running a Milestone release (latest is M2), which is meant for testing purposes. Well, you posted in Prerelease-Beta, so I guess so.
Second: can you post output of
ls -ld
for the mountpoints of the external disk? AFAIK it’s normal that root is the owner, you should change it’s write permissions.
Hi and thank you to your reply
well, you’re right, I use OpenSUSE 11.4 M2 right now.
Here is the ls -ld result:
emmanuel@linux-tvst:/media/disk-1> ls -ld
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 19 oct. 16:00 .
emmanuel@linux-tvst:/media/disk-1>
Please note that the disk is empty, freshly formated.
welcome…
i see this is you second post to our forums…
i wonder, are you are a well seasoned and experienced Linux user who
has decided to help “beta test” our next release software, identify
bugs and write bug reports so that they can be killed prior to 11.4’s
scheduled release??
if so -=WELCOME=- more like you are needed!!
however, then i have to ask why your first posts includes: “How can I
fix that?” because it is not your job to ‘fix it’ on your machine, but
rather to learn if it is a known or unknown bug and then either make
an original bug report or add to the one already in bugzilla…
if you are an unreleased software tester you next stop should be here:
http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports
on the other hand, if you are not a seasoned Linux pro and instead
want to become familiar with or ‘try’ openSUSE, you would be best
served NOT running a milestone (as it will continually throw up little
problems needing fixing by the developers) of the not yet released
11.4, but instead grab 11.3 from here: http://software.opensuse.org/
–
DenverD
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
Hi
I am just an experienced user, who want only latest version of softwares.
I like testing alpha and beta releases, even if I must face some issues like that.
I know this is not my concern to fix an issue, but if this is not a bug but a wrong
parameter in a conf file, or if I can help someone to fix this issue, I would be pleased.
So, the question is, should I post this issue to bug report website ?
emmanuel3838 wrote:
> So, the question is, should I post this issue to bug report website ?
well, is it a bug or not?
you wrote “with OpenSuSE 11.4, my externals USB drives are mounted
with user root. I can’t write any information on them.”
and, i don’t know what that “are mounted with user root” means…are
you saying they were plugged in before the boot and therefore not
auto-detected and auto-mounted…which is to be expected unless you
have set them to be mounted in fstab, right?
and so you had to manually mount them?
with a “device plasma applet” what is that? how did you mouth them as
root? did you log into KDE as root and then use device plasma applet
to mount them…or?
and when you did mount them, however you did, did you mount them read
only? did you assign ownership of the directories on the drive as
owned by root, or open to regular users…
see, your question leaves so much to the imagination that i can’t
begin to know if it is a bug or not…i could easily be the case that
it is not a bug…
for instance: you say the USB keys work, but the external drives do
not…that could easily be because that is the way it is by default,
until you set it up differently…and, if you don’t know that before
you start testing then you probably shouldn’t be beta testing the next
release because you will have exactly the same experience if you try
the same devices on 11.3–and, you can learn how to make read/write to
the external drives by using the forums advanced search funcion to
find the hundred or so threads where that same question has been
asked, and solved before…
now, that was all a guess…but, you have to tell us more if we are
gonna learn if it is a bug or not…
–
DenverD
When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
CAVEAT: http://is.gd/bpoMD [posted via NNTP w/openSUSE 10.3]
It is a handy Plasmoid which comes with KDE4 and is active by default. It enables the user to mount external devices easily.
@emmanuel3838: Could you give us the output when mounting the respective device with the command line?
On 2010-10-22 09:06, emmanuel3838 wrote:
> Please note that the disk is empty, freshly formated.
What filesystem type did you use?
If you formatted it with a native linux filesystem, like ext4, well, they have to be mounted as
root, unless you manually change its permissions with chmod…
It is formatted with windows filesystem, then it is up to what is mounting it to give the appropiate
parameters. It could be a wrong configuration of that applet, or a bug.
–
Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.2 x86_64 “Emerald” at Telcontar)