<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/18/2015 8:24 PM, Israel wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:5532F5D4.7010304@gmail.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 04/18/2015 06:10 PM, John Hupp wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:5532E47C.6070806@prpcompany.com" type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> I installed Lubuntu 14.04 for someone who had an XP-era PC. He also has a really, really old offline PC that he uses for a few familiar programs, and wants to ferry some files back and forth between the two PC's using floppies. This should be no problem, except that the floppy mounts in Lubuntu with root ownership, and only root can change content, so ordinary users cannot copy files to or edit files on a floppy. Someone somewhere (!) reported that the behavior could be duplicated in a virtual machine with no actual floppy drive. Design behavior should be that the floppy mounts with the logged-in user as owner, which is what happens with USB flash drives. As far as I can tell, this is a new instance of a regression in the kernel and/or udisks2 that has previously been reported and fixed. See for instance: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=63849">udisks2 mounts floppy disk as root</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/28/297">Bug fix released</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=740190">udisks2: mounts floppy always for root:root (not writable for normal users)</a> I couldn't figure out how to get floppies to mount with the logged-in user as owner, but I do have a sloppy workaround that sets a permission to allows anyone to change content on the floppy. This was inspired by comment #11 at <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2222487&page=2">Floppies mount fine, but can't seem to edit them in Xubuntu 14.04</a>. The sloppy workaround in my case is to add this line to /etc/fstab: /dev/fd0 /media/user1/disk vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2,user,noauto,umask=0 0 0 This will work fine in a one-user installation, but it fails in a multi-user installation. With user2 as the logged in user, clicking on Floppy Disk in pcmanfm to mount it causes the error: The specified directory '/media/user1/disk' is not valid. I would be happy to hear about it if someone can come up with an improved workaround! </blockquote> Hi It should be possible to run: sudo umount /path/to/floppy sudo mkdir /media/floppy fd0 was taken from your e-mail... it may be different on other systems.. sudo mount -o users /dev/fd0 /media/floppy </blockquote> Thanks to Israel and Andre for the ideas. The best solutions would probably involve chown as Andre suggested in his first reply, and if I knew how, an upstart job that runs when /dev/fd0 is mounted. This could be made to align with expected behavior, such as one sees with a usb flash drive. But taking the path of least resistance, I seized a piece of Israel's idea above, creating /media/floppy. Then I set Change Content: Anyone permission for that. And finally revised my addition to fstab thus: /dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2,user,noauto,umask=0 0 0 This seems to work OK in multiple-user setups, so that is a better workaround. As a footnote: The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, if that is still current, says that /media/floppy should exist, but it does not here in a default installation. See <a href="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT">http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#MEDIAMOUNTPOINT</a> </body> </html>