[ale] shifting permissions

[H. A. Story]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:

>Can somebody _please_ explain what is happening to me.
>I am running RHFC-3, w/2.6 kernel
>
>I have a new 1-gig thumb drive, formatted with vfat (rw).
>
>I want to mount it at /media/widget. This is the listing:
>
>ls -l /media/widget
>   drwxrwxrwx  2 kilpatms users 4096 Apr  3 10:06 widget
>
>
>So then as root I run the mount command and check the perms again:
>[root at sarge media]# mount /dev/sdb1 /media/widget
>[root at sarge media]# ls -l /media/widget
>   drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root  16384 Dec 31  1969 widget
>
>What is changing the permissions?
>More to the point, how to I stop it so that I can use the Thumb Drive
>from my Home directory?
>
>Help would be appreciated.
>For what it's worth, udev loads on boot but seems to have stopped
>working. I am no longer getting an automagic window popup when i new
>usb mass storage device is plugged in.
>
>Sean
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Interesting to me.   If you mount it back as the user are the 
permissions correct?   I don't know the convention for *nix on mounting 
external devices and ownership there of.    Of course udev could be 
messing with your head.   And you may have to do some setups to get that 
right.

Adrin