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rbrito / usbmount

Simple set of scripts to automount removable devices for a Linux system
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Cannot chown target file on exFAT USB-drive #30

Closed AndreySu closed 3 years ago

AndreySu commented 3 years ago

Hello.

I've installed usbmount 0.0.24 on Ubuntu Server v20.04.1 and added exfat to /etc/usbmount/usbmount.conf's variable FILESYSTEMS. USB Flash Drive with exFAT filesystem has been successfully mounted after plug-in, but when I copy files from server's HDD to USB Flash Drive in Midnight Commander I get the following error after each file Cannot chown target file "/media/usb/test.jpg" Operation not permitted (1). As I understand this is because exFAT doesn't support chown. Is it possible to turn off chown attempts for all drives that don't support it?

mathieulj commented 3 years ago

Perhaps I am misunderstanding something so please feel free to correct me on this but if I understand correctly you are saying that Midnight commander is throwing errors because it chowns on copy without checking if the file system supports it? If that is correct, this should be reported on their issue tracker rather than here as usbmount does not interact with the users of the mount at all (and that is completely out of scope of this tool). usbmount only tells the kernel to mount the filesystem, it has no control over how other application (mis)use the disk after that.

thoschworks commented 3 years ago

@mathieulj, I would read the description in the same way like you: not a problem of usbmount.

AndreySu commented 3 years ago

@mathieulj thank you for reply. I'll ask on MC tracker.

thoschworks commented 3 years ago

@AndreySu If it is not an issue with usbmount, can you close the issue, please.

AndreySu commented 3 years ago

Done

thoschworks commented 3 years ago

@AndreySu Thanks. :thumbsup: