FS#30492 - ext2 formatted usb pen - unable to write from an gnome3 user account

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ivan Lyapunov (dront78) - Saturday, 30 June 2012, 14:17 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Monday, 02 July 2012, 06:22 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:


Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
#mkfs.ext2 -L KINGSTON /dev/sdb1
#eject /deb/sdb1
reinsert usb pen, open Nautilus, unable to write any file to usb pen

mount
/dev/sdb1 on /run/media/toma/KINGSTON type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uhelper=udisks2)


usb pen - Kingston Ultimate G2 32Gb
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Monday, 02 July 2012, 06:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Ivan Lyapunov (dront78) - Saturday, 30 June 2012, 14:18 GMT
forget to say - the root access like #cp <filename> /run/media/toma/KINGSTON
works fine
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Sunday, 01 July 2012, 17:39 GMT
This is normal. Although udisks2 allows you to mount an external drive as regular users, you didn't put any permissions for that user on the formatted filesystem, only root can write it.

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