From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PrfpH-0006wZ-05 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 87A231C046 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:09:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8E91C00C for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7B7C7BC7F for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:58:38 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user Subject: [gentoo-user] pmount question Message-ID: <20110221185838.42ab54ce@osage.osagesoftware.com> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 1bdcbcdc4124ca4fec2e6d0bf0e7009e G'day, My USB subsystem is working much better now (than it was this weekend). /etc/fstab had a reference to "/dev/hdb" which no my current kernel no longer supports. Removing this has improved flash drive mounting a whole lot! I've also modified /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules to use "pmount device label" rather than "mount -a". This is mounting flash drives in /media as desired: root@osage media # ls -l total 32 drwx------ 19 root plugdev 16384 Dec 31 1969 PNY drwx------ 3 root plugdev 16384 Dec 31 1969 SD_2G However (as can be seen above) the permissions are 700, which makes the drives unusable by members of the plugdev group. Alternatively, I can use "pmount -u 007 device label" to provide full access to the plugdev group. This seems awkward and inelegant. What's the right way to use pmount and set permissions? Regards, David