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I ran the test of my flash drive which has a 25MB first partition and find that it is r/w.
I have it identified in fstab as follows:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1_rmv vfat defaults 0 0
I also ran :
mount -o remount,r/w /mnt/sda1_rmv
This command was accepted but only if the drive was already mounted..it rejects the command if not already mounted.
Unfortunately, I cannot prove that it changes the permissions since they were already r/w.
I verified that r/w was possible by entering a folder and removing same.
Prediction...This year will be a very odd year!
Hard work does not kill people but why risk it: Charlie Mccarthy
A man is not complete until he is married..then..he is finished.
When ALL is lost, what can be found? Even bytes get lonely for a little bit! X-ray confirms Iam spineless!
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The partition that I mounted was not a bootable partition.
The second partition is bootable and is ext3 and does mount rw . It is identified as sda2_rmv ext3.
Prediction...This year will be a very odd year!
Hard work does not kill people but why risk it: Charlie Mccarthy
A man is not complete until he is married..then..he is finished.
When ALL is lost, what can be found? Even bytes get lonely for a little bit! X-ray confirms Iam spineless!
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One last suggestion....look at the status of your flash drive with gparted......for any clue.
Prediction...This year will be a very odd year!
Hard work does not kill people but why risk it: Charlie Mccarthy
A man is not complete until he is married..then..he is finished.
When ALL is lost, what can be found? Even bytes get lonely for a little bit! X-ray confirms Iam spineless!
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thhanks lilsirecho
used gparted. I removed the boot and lda flags from the usb without any luck
I was able somehow to copy files to the usb but they were copied empty
I'll try to install gnome-volume-manager and I'll let you know
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now...
with gnome-volume-manager if I hotplug the drive it tells me that I am not privileged enough to mount to damn drive... how can one override the fact that one has to be root to mount the damn drive!?
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SOLVED!
I know you guys will lynch me
it was a problem with udev rules
I made a file in /etc/udev/rules.d including the rules at the end of http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev
That solved all the problem. Now hotplugging delivers a new folder in media which rw for every user
Great!!!
sorry guys for having you chase a chimera!
Cippa
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one last note
as my hard drive is a SATA I had to chance the code listed in the wiki so that all the "sd[a-z]" would be written as "sd[b-z]"
cheers
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Ye know something, I've faced something like this, but with an SD Card. And man was it weird. I desperately tried to go through a few troubleshooting steps within the first 5 mins. It was a 1GB mini in a normal SD adapter. I alsa had a normal SD, smaller sized 512MB. So i took that one out, inserted it, and surprisingly it worked read-write. I was baffled. And then, i inserted the one which didn't work, and suddenly it also worked. I guess somehow the partition access routine got refreshed. I didn't even have to add any udev rules.
And I don't like defining temp storage in fstab, i like it dynamic so the mounted filename resembles the label. So HAL and KDE's KIO are my best friends.
Last edited by schivmeister (2008-01-12 17:19:16)
I need real, proper pen and paper for this.
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yep, I also got the feeling that this all automount is kind of flaky... especially since few people seem to get the hang of it.
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Change title to (solved) when you are satisfied.
Prediction...This year will be a very odd year!
Hard work does not kill people but why risk it: Charlie Mccarthy
A man is not complete until he is married..then..he is finished.
When ALL is lost, what can be found? Even bytes get lonely for a little bit! X-ray confirms Iam spineless!
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