On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:55 -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> > I was infuriated to find that the latest version of Ubuntu does not
> > AUTOMATICALLY mount a USB drive as soon as it's plugged it. It does
> > appear on the Gnome desktop, with a nice descriptive icon, but as soon
> > as the user clicks it they get PERMISSION DENIED.
> >
> > Christ, it's 2005, do they still expect us to fuck with config files?
>
> Lee,
>
> Sorry to hear that, but my USB key works just fine in Ubuntu 5.10. It
> is formatted as FAT (32, maybe?).
This was an NTFS filesystem. Despite the presence of NTFS read-write
support in the kernel it seems to mount it such that only root can
access the filesystem.
Lee
Received on Mon Dec 5 20:15:07 2005
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