Hello all,

I've a 500GB USB-HDD formated with ext3. On plugging in device-notifier pops up and shows the disk, but it is mounted as root:root under media. Messages show, that hal mounts it under the user's UID 502, but the notifier seems to change the owner afterwards.
There was a problem with earlier versions, mounting some fs-types with the wrong permissions. Never recognized it with an external ext3 HDD, because I didn't have one.

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Apr 18 09:40:41 morpheus hald: mounted /dev/sdb1 on behalf of uid 502

and .hal-mtab shows:

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/dev/sdb1       502     0       ext3    nosuid,nodev    /media/IcyBox

I've used the fork of the old device notifier plasmoid, but this is now integrated into KDE and I don't want to compile complete KDE for this issue.
If this is not the correct forum, please move my post.

Regards
m0nk

With linux native (POSIX) filesystems (like ext3), ownerships/permissions are stored within the filesystem and are not defined at mount time.

Once you've mounted your filesystem, you can change it's ownerships/permissions with chown/chmod (or with dolphin as root), and the changes you make will persist in subsequent mounts.