Changing ownership on floppy

[Eric Weir]

Stupid me. The very thing I did to avoid the situation I wanted to avoid 
created the problem I wanted to avoid.

If I could just remember what I learn as I go along this would be a lot 
less frustrating. But I go along for a while, and then I have to do 
something over, but I've forgotten exactly what I did, and sometimes 
even where to go for the instructions that helped me do it the first time.

Thanks very much,
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA  USA
eeweir at bellsouth.net

David Tomaschik wrote:
> 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).
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> David
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> Eric Weir wrote:
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>> Well, perhaps you understand why, but it mounted with me as owner. I am 
>> able to copy the files I wanted to copy.
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>> 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:
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>>> 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. 
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>>> David
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>>> Eric Weir wrote:
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>>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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:
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>>>>>> 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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