Given two USB pluggable devices, a Sony Mylo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mylo_(Sony) , and a Kingston flash store.
# These lines for udev. root@dalton:/home/peter# tail -n 8 /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules # Persistent device names. # The Sony mylo. KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTR{size}=="1752512", SYMLINK+="mylo", \ OWNER="peter", GROUP="floppy" # The KingstonUSB. KERNEL=="sd?1", ATTR{size}=="499712", SYMLINK+="KingstonUSB", \ OWNER="peter", GROUP="users" # And for mount. root@dalton:/home/peter# tail -n 3 /etc/fstab /dev/KingstonUSB /home/peter/MY ext2 defaults,noauto,user 0 0 /dev/mylo /home/peter/mylo vfat defaults,noauto,user 0 0 # These are the mount points. root@dalton:/home/peter# ls -ld /home/peter/{MY,mylo} drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter 4096 Sep 5 07:08 /home/peter/MY drwxr-xr-x 2 peter peter 4096 Jun 25 15:48 /home/peter/mylo root@dalton:/home/peter# getfacl /home/peter/{MY,mylo} getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: home/peter/MY # owner: peter # group: peter user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x # file: home/peter/mylo # owner: peter # group: peter user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x # Plug the two devices. Then check mount options & ownership again. root@dalton:/home/peter# mount | grep peter /dev/sdb1 on /home/peter/mylo type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=100 0,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,errors=rem ount-ro,user=peter) /dev/sdd1 on /home/peter/MY type ext2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,errors=co ntinue,user_xattr,acl,user=peter) root@dalton:/home/peter# ls -ld /home/peter/{MY,mylo} drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 5 06:50 /home/peter/MY drwxr-xr-x 19 peter root 8192 Dec 31 1969 /home/peter/mylo root@dalton:/home/peter# ls -ld /home/peter/{MY,mylo} drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 5 06:50 /home/peter/MY drwxr-xr-x 19 peter root 8192 Dec 31 1969 /home/peter/mylo root@dalton:/home/peter# getfacl /home/peter/{MY,mylo} getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: home/peter/MY # owner: root # group: root user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x # file: home/peter/mylo # owner: peter # group: root user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x With similar entries in fstab, why are the mount options so different? mount shows user=peter for both devices. Why do ls and getfacl show KingstonUSB assigned to root:root and mylo assigned to peter:root after mounting? The last is confirmed by peter not being able to write to MY after mounting. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 Tel +13606390202 Bcc: peasthope at shaw.ca http://carnot.yi.org/ "http://members.shaw.ca/peasthope/index.html#Itinerary " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/171058149.46297.23600@cantor.invalid