Am Sonntag, 17. Juni 2012, 17:13:32 schrieb C:
[...] I could say.. just open up a terminal and change the permissions on the mount point then plug in the drive
No. That will not help. When you use ext4, regard the external disk as an internal one. Consider your own "/" or "/home". As a user, you cannot write to them. This is because of the ownership/permissions of the file system itself, not because of the mount point and its ownership/permissions before mounting. In contrast, take a look at "/tmp". There, anyone could create files and directories, it is word-writable. In addition, it has the restricted deletion bit set. That is, this flag "prevents unprivileged users from removing or renaming a file in the directory unless they own the file or the directory" (man chmod). If this is the desired behavior, you, as root, could do a "chmod a=rwxt" on the mounted file system or use dolphin in root mode.
(but that only works around the problem for that one drive)...
Correct. But then on every unix computer forever. :)
or manually mount the drive with a different mask...
Masks are useful for file systems that do not support unix permissions, e.g., NTFS and FAT.
but neither of these "solutions" should be necessary in a default setup should they? [...]
For internal hard disks the default permissions are reasonable. In case of external ones, it depends. Sometimes you want "/home" permissions and sometimes "/tmp" permissions. Gruß Jan -- Nothing happens to you that hasn't happened to someone else. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org