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Can't create folders - drive mounted as root?

Asked by Endolith

I have three external hard drives. Sometimes they don't mount themselves at all, sometimes they do. Today they are mounting themselves, which is good, but one of the partitions (EXT3) is mounted with owner root and the others are mounted with my username (FAT, NTFS).

How do I fix this?

(Please don't tell me to edit fstab. These are external drives auto-mounted by HAL or whatever.)

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

From the terminal:

sudo chown -R username:username /mount_point/of_your_EXT3_partition
sudo chmod -R 755 /mount_point/of_your_EXT3_partition

HTH.

Regards,

Ian

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Endolith (endolith) said : 		#2

How do I get it to mount correctly?

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Endolith (endolith) said : 		#3

Is it the same kind of bug as this?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451072

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#4

I'm not just sure as I can't see any bug related to this here at launchpad. Try using the commands I posted above.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#5

@ Ian
Please click on the Bugzilla link given by Endolith. Bugzilla is upstream of launchpad and worth having a look around

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Endolith (endolith) said : 		#6

Now it's mounted as my username on reboot. Those chown and chmod commands work between reboots with automatically-mounted drives? Is that why it was mounted as root in the first place?

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#7

lol, sorry Endolith, i didn't understand what Ian was suggesting, seems like he knows his stuff tho :)))
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