Partitions are mounted under /media/user1/ even for user2, who cannot access them

nonhocapito

5/22/24, 6:13 AM

Ubuntu 22.10 and Cinnamon.

Say we have two users: Admin and Standard.

There are a few external disk partitions that are mounted at startup (no changes to default Disks settings).

Admin logs in. Partitions are mounted under /media/Admin/Partition.

Then, Standard user logs in. Perhaps Admin logged off, or they simply "switched".

Standard user is now offered (by Nemo, I guess) all the same external disk partitions mounted.

But: these partitions are still mounted under /media/Admin/Partition and Standard user cannot access them!

This is confusing. I though Ubuntu (or should I say Nautilus/Nemo?) would install partitions under the /media/username scheme?? Shouldn't this change accordingly to what user is logged in?

Even more confusing: Standard user at this point can enter Disks and, with the Admin password, change the mount point to one accessible to them.

When Admin logs back in, however, the mount point has been changed, and things are not where they were supposed to be!

How could this be happening? What am I missing?

How to make partitions equally accessible for two different users, regardless of who mounted the partition first, or their status?

Should all mounting paths be changed to something generic such as /mnt/? Or would the permissions problem be the same?

EDIT: the problem remains if both users are administrators.

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guiverc

5/22/24, 7:48 AM

Ubuntu 22.10 did not have *Cinnamon* as a *flavor* before Ubuntu Cinnamon 23.04, so are you using Ubuntu? or the Ubuntu Cinnamon 22.10 *respin*? If you want mounts to be used by both users, don't use a GUI feature to mount them (*and have them linked to that user*) but define set mount points & have them auto-mounted, or just on request and in a location where you decide is appropriate for both users. There are many ways to accomplish this, but I'd use the *file-system table* for the OS; https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

nonhocapito

5/22/24, 8:48 AM

Ubuntu, cinnamon... Wouldn't these problems be equally repeatable under regular Ubuntu? Editing fstab, okay... but, isn't that what Disks is for?

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