[jmadero]

Hi All,

I have an external that used to mount with no problem at boot (or if I had it off when the system started I could just turn it on and it would mount) in Gutsy but can't get the same results in Hardy. On boot it shows my 250 GB media but when I click on it, it says permission denied (or something similar to this). If I go to terminal and type "sudo mount /dev/sdb6 /media/disk" it mounts with no problem. Here is the line in my fstab:

/dev/sdb6 /media/disk vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

The problem happens if I have it on at boot or if I have it off and turn it on once Ubuntu is fully loaded. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks all!

[devils casper]

/dev/sdb6 /media/disk vfat utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1

Edit /etc/fstab file :

/dev/sdb6 /media/disk vfat defaults,umask=0 0 0

[jmadero]

No luck with those commands. Changed fstab and rebooted. Same thing, in places there is my 250 GB media but when I click on it it comes up with an error saying "Cannout mount volume. You are not privileged to mount this volume."

If I do sudo mount ....... it works fine. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

[jmadero]

Hi All,

I'm getting more and more frustrated trying to figure out what's going on with my external. From my understanding I should be able to put "user,rw" and have it readable and writable by users (as well as mountable by user). When I have this I does mount to the point but I don't have permissions as user (I can't delete anything).

If I completely remove the line from fstab that pertains to my external it mounts and is writeable by user BUT the mount point is weird (changed every time). I want my external mounting to /media/disk but if I remove it from fstab every time I reboot it mounts to /media/disk-# (where # increases by one every time, leaving previous /media/disk-# folders in the /media folder with big red X's on them). Basically if I accept this method I would have my privileges fine but I would have 20 empty folders after only 10 reboots (external has two partitions)...prefer not to have it this way. Thanks all

[MikeTbob]

Originally Posted by jmadero

Hi All,

I'm getting more and more frustrated trying to figure out what's going on with my external. From my understanding I should be able to put "user,rw" and have it readable and writable by users (as well as mountable by user). When I have this I does mount to the point but I don't have permissions as user (I can't delete anything).

If I completely remove the line from fstab that pertains to my external it mounts and is writeable by user BUT the mount point is weird (changed every time). I want my external mounting to /media/disk but if I remove it from fstab every time I reboot it mounts to /media/disk-# (where # increases by one every time, leaving previous /media/disk-# folders in the /media folder with big red X's on them). Basically if I accept this method I would have my privileges fine but I would have 20 empty folders after only 10 reboots (external has two partitions)...prefer not to have it this way. Thanks all

This is very strange. I think you might consider filling a bug report with Ubuntu. Did you try devils caspers solution, and remove the GID from the fstab entry?

[jmadero]

I got the solution but still don't know why/how the previous problem was happening: here is the fstab section for my external now:


/dev/sdb5 /media/BACKUP vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /media/disk vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0


What casper said did not fix it, this was the only way that I was able to get it to mount with permissions consistently to the same folder. Thanks all

[MikeTbob]

WOOHOO, way to go bro!
Glad you got it solved.

[jmadero]

I lied....still having a problem, I am just about to conclude that it is with Hardy and might go back to Gutsy. Here's that section of the fstab:

/dev/sdb5 /media/BACKUP vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /media/disk vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0

They are the same thing (two partitions of external). Upon reboot I tested both, the backup works no problem while the other partition (the one I need most of the time) comes up with an error saying I don't have permissions to mount the drive! How can this be possible when they are IDENTICAL other than sdb5 vs sdb6!?!?! Then I do sudo mount /dev/sdb6 /media/disk and I get no problem but then it's back to I can't delete files as regular user (it's my 250 gig external with all my stuff on it and I delete/add often )

Any suggestions?