application have no privilege to write extend storage file system

[yanglei]

When we use the SD/USB stick as extend storage, we have no way to let user write something into such extend storage because of root privilege protection.

currently, we can only use root user to mount the file system on SD/USB stick. This will prevent some usage model like:
edit some docs with "moblin-note" and store on the SD/USB stick.

[Horace (horace-li)]

I will take a look on this.

[yanglei (lei-a-yang)]

I did some investigation on this.
I found this is because I mount the USB stick to /mnt. UME user cannot write the folder by defaultly.

So I think this is caused by missing auto-mount machenism.

[Rusty Lynch (rusty-lynch-intel)]

The software component that implements automounting, gnome-volume-manager, will mount removabile devices with permissions to allow the current user to read/write data on the device. By installing moblin-media-import, then gnome-volume-manager gets installed as a dependency.

[yanglei (lei-a-yang)]

Rusty, in our latest image (QA image 20080317), I found the auto-mount mechanism cannot work.
The package moblin-media-import (v0.41) and gnome-volume-manager (2.17.0-2ubuntu2).

So I reopen the bug.

[Horace (horace-li)]

Yanglei, please file a new bug with description "auto-mount mechanism cannot work on current Moblin environment". The bug has been different and kept tracking here will cause confusion.

Thanks a lot,
Horace

[Horace (horace-li)]

This bug is cause of missed parameter appending when user tries to mount removable device manually, With proper options, application can have privilege to write extend storage file system, Sample is like `sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt -o uid=1000 (1000 is the uid of ume)`.

[yanglei (lei-a-yang)]

I agree with Horace's comments.
I have filed a new bug to track the issue "auto-mount mechanism cannot work on current Moblin environment" (bug #203431)