HAL automount permissions differs between USB HD and USB memory stick

Olaus · 06-27-2010, 05:12 AM

When I connect my USB HD and USB memory stick, they show up in /media as

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drwx------ 1 olle root  4096 2010-06-27 09:05 Expansion Drive
drwxr-xr-x 6 olle root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 KINGSTON

where Expansion Drive is the HD and KINGSTON the memory stick. The difference in permissions makes it hard to share the HD as a samba share. Why is there a difference? There is no entry for the HD (or the memory stick) in /etc/fstab. There was no problem connecting to the HD from Windows via samba in slack 13.0, so I guess something must have happened in the upgrade. And, finally, how and where do I set the permissions to 755 for the HD?

yooy · 06-27-2010, 07:12 AM

One idea is to mount things manually

If you check folders with "df" and then try to chmod that folder. hope this helps.

Olaus · 06-27-2010, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by yooy

One idea is to mount things manually

If you check folders with "df" and then try to chmod that folder. hope this helps.

Yeah, but this has worked before, and I don't see why it wouldn't do that in this version of Slackware too.

Richard Cranium · 06-27-2010, 10:12 PM

I would advise running the command "hal-device" and look for your USB HD device. If you posted what hal reported for that drive, we can perhaps give some pointers.

Olaus · 06-28-2010, 04:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Richard Cranium

I would advise running the command "hal-device" and look for your USB HD device. If you posted what hal reported for that drive, we can perhaps give some pointers.

That is a very long listing, with several different entries for the HD. What should I search for if I want to see which permissions are set?

By the way, this is the mount information for the HD if that helps:

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/dev/sdb1 on /media/Expansion Drive type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096,default_permissions)

Richard Cranium · 06-28-2010, 06:34 PM

I don't know what rule would apply without the details.