USB HDD seen as vfat but not ext3

[kubherm]

Got a brand new USB HDD ( WD "my Book") when I unboxed and plugged into my Feisty box everything worked dandily. Automatically mounted as VFAT(what it came as) icon on desktop everything you'd hope for.

Since I'm backing up some Ruby on Rails sites that I admin, I needed to reformat drive to ext3 so symlinks would work,... OK fdisk, mkfs.ext3 everything looked good - until I power cycled the new HDD. Now the HDD will automount and icon appears but everything is owned root - can't write to it as my user.

I thought maybe I screwed something up so back to VFAT - everything fine again.

I mucked around with HAL policy files, udev settings but nothing. I ended up putting a static listing in FSTAB( drive still wont mount unless I do it manually)

This is obviously suboptimal for backup purposes. any ideas on the HAL/UDEV stuff?

Thanks for any help.

[jankushka]

Re: USB HDD seen as vfat but not ext3

hook up your external hd.
open up a konsole.
execute the following:

sudo -i
cd /media
chown -R youruser:yourgroup ./my Book

that should be it.
cheers.
hth.

[kubherm]

Re: USB HDD seen as vfat but not ext3

but aren't those nodes created dynamically by udev when the drive is plugged/unplugged? The permissions are correct when its VFAT formattted.

[SheeEttin]

Re: USB HDD seen as vfat but not ext3

Mount points are sometimes made automatically. It depends on how you mount the drive.

Since you added an entry in your fstab, no, the mount point will not change.
Also, since you have said entry in your fstab, try adding the options "uid=1000" and "gid=1000" (assuming your UID and GID are 1000) to the fstab line for that drive. (You might also want the option "user".)

[jankushka]

Re: USB HDD seen as vfat but not ext3

VFAT file systems don't store file ownerships.

[kubherm]

Re: USB HDD seen as vfat but not ext3

I'm sorry - maybe I didn't make myself clear.

I've got it working (mostly) fine when in FSTAB

I'm trying to get it to function with the HAL/UDEV stuff. I know I could just stick with the FSTAB settings but I have several ubuntu boxes I want to plug this into and I would like to stick with the automount stuff.

[kubherm]

Re: USB HDD seen as vfat but not ext3

Thanks guys - I actually fixed this!

erased all my static settings - removed the /media/* files, etc...

maybe I had something in the /media directory that was blocking it correctly mounting correctly.

Thanks again