Here is my problem:
I have a floppy disk formatted with ext2 filesystem, I am able to mount it as a normal user, however, I can not write to it.
As root, I can write to it , so I know it's not a problem with the floppy.
Here is an example:
Code:
s34n@the-gates-of-hell:/media/floppy$ echo goddamnit > testfile
bash: testfile: Permission denied
Here is my fstab :
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 / xfs noatime 0 1
/dev/hda6 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/hda10 /home xfs noatime 0 2
/dev/hda7 none swap sw 0 0
# Now the user mountable file systems...
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hdc /media/dvdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto rw,user,noauto,sync 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=s34n,gid=s34n 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=s34n,gid=s34n 0 0
/dev/hda9 /mnt/data xfs rw,noatime,user,noauto 0 2
# End
These are the permissions of /dev/fd0 and /media/floppy BEFORE I issue the command :
Code:
s34n@the-gates-of-hell:~$ mount /media/floppy
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jul 22 2004 /dev/fd0
drwxrwxr-x 2 root floppy 6 Jan 29 20:47 floppy
And these are the permissions AFTER :
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 Jul 22 2004 /dev/fd0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Feb 1 21:08 floppy
And this is the output from mount :
Code:
s34n@the-gates-of-hell:~$ mount
/dev/hda8 on / type xfs (rw,noatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda10 on /home type xfs (rw,noatime)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,user=s34n)
I realize the reason I cannot write to /media/floppy is because after mounting, the permissions of /media/floppy are changed to be writable only by root.
But what I don't understand is why the permissions do change after mounting.
Anyone have a clue?
