12 Nov
2008
12 Nov
'08
11:27 p.m.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 23:30 -0600, David M. Creswick
wrote:
The solution appears to have been to reboot because now I can run
mkdosfs as normal user.
Cheers.
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Patrick Shirkey
Boost Hardware Ltd.
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:53:17 +0700
Patrick Shirkey <pshirkey(a)boosthardware.com> wrote:
Thanks for the tip. I ran this command:
/usr/sbin/usermod -a -G floppy username
On Fedora9 at least the floppy group does not control removeable disks.
I also tried the disk group but nothing...
Any other suggestions?
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.
Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> 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.
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.