<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">That is an elegant idea, but I don't know how to do that. For now, I took the path of least resistance to a better workaround. I created /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 it 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> On 4/18/2015 8:16 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAAdgGAn7W7uZA_ouzwQ2eznfCo07yFf6Zx6DD2LuJ80D331_CA@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr">Not very knowledgable about this, but I think you can add an upstart job that runs every time the volume is mounted. This could chmod or chown the mount dir.</div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-18 20:09 GMT-04:00 John Hupp <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu@prpcompany.com" target="_blank">ubuntu@prpcompany.com</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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. (If so, then the problem should appear in Ubuntu as well as Lubuntu.) See for instance: udisks2 mounts floppy disk as root Bug fix released udisks2: mounts floppy always for root:root (not writable for normal users) 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 Floppies mount fine, but can't seem to edit them in Xubuntu 14.04. 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! -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote> </div> </div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> </body> </html>