12 Nov
2008
12 Nov
'08
1:30 a.m.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:53:17 +0700
Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
Joern Nettingsmeier wrote:
I think Joern is correct in that all you need is read+write permissions
on the device node. Under debian etch, the group is set to "floppy" for
device nodes of removable usb storage devices. I imagine other distros
do something similar. So the user should just have to be a member of
the floppy (or equivalent) group to run mkdosfs on the device.
--
David M. Creswick
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
Thanks for the tip.
I'm working on it now.
However this seems like a major oversight from a Linux on the desktop
perspective that you need to be root user to format a removable disk. It
would make sense that Nautilus or Konqueror would have built in support
by now.
Does anyone have experience with any distros/apps allowing this as
normal user?
It seems like it should be a no brainer.
Hi,
I can't find anything online that gives me a way to run /sbin/mkdosfs as
a normal user.
Is it just that I need to add the user to the mkdosfs group or something
similar?
are you sure the program itself prevents that? my guess is it's the
device you want to create the file on.
should be a matter of creating a new group disk_removable or something,
writing an udev rule to give it r/w access to all floppies and usb
sticks and add yourself to that group.