mintstick formats usb as root
Bug #1306276 reported by
Bee
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Mint |
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Bug Description
Linux Mint 16 xfce 32-bit
When I format a USB stick with either USB Stick Formatter (aka mintstick) or GParted as ext4 (or ext2) owner is set to root and files can not be dragged to it.
I can change owner to me (current user), and then it works.
This will not work for some of the people I install Linux Mint, they have no clue what root is or how to change owner.
Should USB Stick Formatter set owner to the current user?
Bill
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Where are you seeing the "owner" as root? When you format it, there won't be any files on it, and any files you copy over should have the same ownership as the original. It might be mounted as read-only - if you unplug and replug the drive after formatting it, does it behave as expected?
Out of interest, why ext4 and not exFAT or FAT32 (if 4Gb or less)?