Changing ownership on floppy

[David Tomaschik]

Yep.  Once you use sudo, the underlying application sees it as "root is
doing..." instead of "eric is doing..." (or whatever your actual
username may be).

David


Eric Weir wrote:
> Well, perhaps you understand why, but it mounted with me as owner. I am 
> able to copy the files I wanted to copy.
>
> Previously I mounted it with 'sudo mount /media/floppy0'. Is there an 
> explanation in that, i.e., why root ended up owning it? Because I used sudo?
>
> Thanks,
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Eric Weir
> Decatur, GA  USA
> eeweir at bellsouth.net
>
> David Tomaschik wrote:
>   
>> What's your definition of 'automount'?  A floppy disk will never
>> automount on being inserted as floppy drives give no indication of this
>> status, unlike optical or USB drives.  That fstab line should allow you
>> to mount via 'mount /dev/fd0' as a normal user, and it will be owned as
>> the user that performed the action. 
>>
>> David
>>
>> Eric Weir wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Thanks, Kevin. What I've got is "something like, but certainly not 
>>> identical. In my condition of relative ignorance, it looks to me like I 
>>> shouldn't be having the experience I'm having. [Does it say it should 
>>> automount and that it's owned by user?].
>>>
>>> /dev/fd0    /media/floppy0    auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8    0    0
>>>
>>> Again, any insights would be appreciated.
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> Eric Weir
>>> Decatur, GA  USA
>>> eeweir at bellsouth.net
>>>
>>> Kevin Fishburne wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Make sure your floppy line in /etc/fstab looks something like:
>>>>
>>>> # Floppy Drive
>>>> /dev/fd0    /media/floppy0    auto    rw,noauto,user,sync    0    0
>>>>
>>>> It should automount floppy disks upon insertion and double-clicking 
>>>> the floppy drive under Places, Computer. I don't know what kind of 
>>>> permissions will be used, as the floppy disks are probably FAT16/32 
>>>> which don't really use permissions. They'll probably be set to 
>>>> read/write for the user who mounted the floppy drive though.
>>>>
>>>> Kevin Fishburne
>>>>
>>>> Eight Virtues
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 15:17 -0400, Eric Weir wrote:
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>>>> I have some old files on floppies that I want to copy to my hard disk. I 
>>>>> am able to mount the drive only with sudo on the terminal. After it's 
>>>>> mounted, ownership is root. When I try to change that by sudoing chown, 
>>>>> I am told "Operation not permitted." I thought sudo gave you root 
>>>>> privileges. Is there a way around this Catch-22?
>>>>>
>>>>> At the risk of ticking off people who otherwise might be inclined to 
>>>>> help, I have to say that this is one of the things that's really 
>>>>> irritating about Linux, and that is driving me away from it. I have been 
>>>>> patiently -- well, honestly, sometimes pretty *impatiently* -- trying to 
>>>>> understand it, assuming that eventually things that used to mystify 
>>>>> would become intuitive.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess some have. Probably many have, given where I started. But over a 
>>>>> year into this and I can't even use my own frigging floppy drive without 
>>>>> asking for help? [I checked a couple books I have. I went to 
>>>>> linuxcommand.org for help with the commands. I posted on another forum. 
>>>>> Two hours have passed. Now I'm trying you guys.] I'm *tired* of this.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you can forgive the rant, I'd appreciate any suggestions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Eric Weir
>>>>> Decatur, GA  USA
>>>>> eeweir at bellsouth.net <mailto:eeweir at bellsouth.net>
>>>>>
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