[solved] why are USB sticks mounted under different user ids

[toralf]

I'm wondering why a 1 GB stick is mounted under KDE 4.4.5/hal/device plugger using my user id (group "root") whereas a 4 GB stick - plugged into the same USB slot - is mounted under root:root.

[ppurka]

Not all filesystems allow you to mount as user. A fat or ntfs partition can be mounted with a user id (uid). An ext2/3/4 filesystem on the other hand can not be mounted using a uid.

Perhaps your 1G stick is formatted as fat (or similar) and the 4G stick is formatted as ext3 (or similar).
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[toralf]