[Bug 427021] [NEW] [Karmic] mountmanager usability flaws
seasoned_geek
roland at logikalsolutions.com
Wed Sep 9 20:35:29 UTC 2009
Public bug reported:
Per bug 409039
I made the mistake of choosing /dos as the mount point for my FreeDOS
partition instead of /drive_c like I wanted during installation. The
FAT-32 extended partition I use for transferring data between other
platforms is mounted as /drive_d and I wanted to keep the naming schema
consistent. Someone suggested I use MountManager to fix the issue since
fstab seems to be of little to no value these days.
1) MountManager wouldn't let me key in a new mount point. I had to
manually create a /drive_c directory, then select that directory as a
mount point.
2) Somehow it changed the settings on /drive_d (which wasn't even
touched) to not automatically mount. I had to manually click on it and
provide the root password.
3) It left the /dos directory sitting out there and useless and there
was no method I tried which would delete it.
4) Further experimentation got /drive_d to consistently mount, but
"root" now owned all of the files even though the settings said "current
user" in MountManager. Most likely this was because the mount occurs
during system startup and root happens to be what is running.
5) I had to manually go back in and force my username to be both owner
and group because even with access set to RWE in MountManager, I could
not update or create a file from within a text editor like SciTE or a
word processor like LOTUS Symphony.
roland at logikaldesktop:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
** Affects: mountmanager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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[Karmic] mountmanager usability flaws
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/427021
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