I am attempting to mount my Amazon Kindle, 3rd Edition. It automounts correctly and when I run mount -l
, I get the following output:
/dev/sdg1 on /media/usb0 type vfat (rw,noexec,nodev,sync,noatime,nodiratime) [Kindle]
From this output, it appears to me that I should be able to read and write to the file system.
Unfortunately, when I try to copy any files to the Kindle, I cannot do it as a regular user. I do have pmount setup on my machine, so I'm not sure if that is causing the problem...haven't been able to find any additional information about it in regards to this kind of issue.
Anybody have any suggestions of what I may be missing here? Thank you.
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jascav@home:~$ id
uid=1000(jascav) gid=1000(jascav) groups=1000(jascav),4(adm),7(lp),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),30(dip),46(plugdev),104(fuse),108(lpadmin),109(sambashare),1001(power)
jascav@home:~$ ls -ld /media/usb0/
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 8192 Dec 31 1969 /media/usb0/
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I am using usbmount for my automounting solution. I use pmount so a normal user can mount the device. It appears (after further investigation) that these applications aren't working together. usbmount is doing the automounting, but it is not doing it from the user's perspective. If I pumount the device and then mount it again manually, I can write to the device.
Getting closer, but I'm still not sure how to get usbmount to honor the user. (Maybe I can't?)
id
and =>ls -ld /media/usb0
media/usb0
isroot
and (s)he is the only one with write access. You can manually change it withsudo chown jascav /media/usb0
ormount -o remount,uid=jascav /media/usb0
, but the real answer to your question is how to set up the system that this happens automatically. Not sure about that unfortunately. What distribution are you using?