Re: a fstab and an access rights questions

From: Torsten Kaiser (NOSPAMPLEASE_at_pcdweb.de)
Date: 12/24/03 

Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:45:22 +0100

Hello Derk,

Derk wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have 2 questions:
>
> 1) Every time I plug in my card reader, I can't delete any files from it
> but after having given me (the user) write permission as Root. Is there a
> way I can do this without having to do this every time over and over
> again?

Simple question as a hint to help you understand: Who owns files on a
filesystem like FAT where, by design, there isn't any information about
ownerships?

> 2) Sometimes the reader is sda1, sometimes sdb1. I don't plug in other
> hardware, though. Why is this?

AFAIK this only happens when you hotplug your reader a second time, while it
is still registered as an active device. I experienced, that the
hotplug-service isn't quite that flexible and stable as it surely will be
in one of the next releases.

HTH
Torsten Kaiser 

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