Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick - VFAT usb drives mount with root access only

[Tong Sun]

Hi,

Exactly as what happens in Ubuntu 10.04, VFAT usb drives mount with root access only,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/573981

same thing happens to Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick now.

The workaround in above bug report doesn't apply to me -- I don't have usbmount installed.

Tech details is the same as
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/573981/comments/13

when I mount the vfat manually with very specific read and write permissions for my user id, everything are still mounted as root:root

Following the examples from
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

This is what I get:

$ ls -ld /mnt/usbpen
drwxr-xr-x 2 tong tong 4096 2010-08-06 18:36 /mnt/usbpen

$ sudo mount -t vfat -o defaults,user,exec,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=000 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usbpen

$ ls -ld /mnt/usbpen
drwx------ 5 root root 4096 1969-12-31 19:00 /mnt/usbpen

$ sudo ls -l /mnt/usbpen
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22 2010-09-12 00:15 file1.txt
. . .

The same mount command have always been working fine under Debian.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 573981, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.