Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-30 Thread Lamar Owen
On Saturday, March 26, 2011 01:04:31 am JD wrote: > That said, I do not know of any way that will let you > connect your drive to any (Linux?) system and expect it to be automounted > onto some specific mount point (assuming the mount point exists). F14 at least will take an ext4 formatted disk an

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread suvayu ali
Hi JD, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:04 PM, JD wrote: > uuid's are supposed to be universal - but I am not sure what that means. > >From  the man page: > OSSP uuid - Universally Unique Identifier Command-Line Tool > Yes I was aware of that. That is why I asked if you meant for me to use it in the f

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread suvayu ali
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Robert Nichols wrote: > Are you talking about the ownership of the root directory on the mounted > file system?  That's stored in the directory's inode, just as with any > other directory.  With the file system mounted, use 'chown' (as root) to > change that owners

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Ed, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > But, since my system is a single user system I've always just cd to > /media or /mnt and then just chown myuid:mygroup mntpoint after doing > the mkfs and after mounting it the first time. > > Since my external drives were all ext3 they

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread JD
On 03/25/2011 09:47 PM, suvayu ali wrote: > Hi Hiisi and JB, > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:07 PM, JD wrote: >> On 03/25/2011 08:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging >>> it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user.

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread Robert Nichols
On 03/25/2011 10:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging > it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to > use ext4 (with gparted), it keeps getting auto-mounted as root both on > F13 and F14. Any

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread suvayu ali
Hi Hiisi and JB, On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:07 PM, JD wrote: > On 03/25/2011 08:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging >> it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to >> use ext4 (with gparte

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread Ed Greshko
On 03/26/2011 11:37 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging > it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to > use ext4 (with gparted), it keeps getting auto-mounted as root both on > F13 and F14. Any

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread JD
On 03/25/2011 08:37 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging > it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to > use ext4 (with gparted), it keeps getting auto-mounted as root both on > F13 and F14. Any

Re: External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread Hiisi
On 26 March 2011 06:37, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging > it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to > use ext4 (with gparted), it keeps getting auto-mounted as root both on > F13 and F14. Any

External HDD auto-mounted as root

2011-03-25 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi everyone, I just bought a 1TB WD Passport. It came formatted as NTFS, on plugging it in, it auto-mounted as the regular user. But after I formatted it to use ext4 (with gparted), it keeps getting auto-mounted as root both on F13 and F14. Any ideas what I could do about this? -- Suvayu Open s