This is not a problem in hal/devicekit/etc., but an inherent property of ext3. Unix file systems like ext[234], jfs, etc. all assign owners and groups to files. If you use ext3, you need to create a folder on it which belongs to you.
For a lot of foreign file systems, in particular the ones which don't have a concept of owners (vfat, iso9660, etc.) we can mount them with the uid/gid options, but these do not exist for ext3. ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Mounted ext3 file systems are not writable by users https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/382074 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs