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I have a fedora chroot running on an Android device and want to be able to plug a USB pen drive into the Android device and have it accessible to a user in the fedora chroot.

The pen drive is mounted to /mnt/usbhost2 within Android. I have created a folder within /media of the fedora chroot as a mount point this folder (/usb) is owned by the user that needs access to the usb device.

I have then tried the following command the mount the USB device to this folder:

$bbox mount -o bind /mnt/usbhost2 $mnt/media/usb

Which does work however the usb folder is no longer accessable by the user (only root user has access). Before the mount the usb folder ls -l out put:

drwxrwxr-x username username 4096

However after the mount the ls -l out put it:

d---rwxr-x username media_rw 8192

So the question is how to I get the owner to have access again, simply using chmod does not work. I guess it has something to do with that fact that the usb device is formatted FAT32.

Is there another way I could mount this drive in the chroot that would give the user access?

DevWithZachary
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  • This is a puzzle.  You say, “only root user has access,” but d---rwxr-x (075) should mean that everybody in the media_rw group (except for your special user) has full access (7), and that everybody else (i.e., not the user or in the group) has read-only access (5).  Have you tried accessing the drive as some other user?  Other things to try: (1) chown the mount point to a user other than username.  (2) Check the documentation for mount on your system.  If it supports any of noowners, -u, or -uid, use it. –  Feb 11 '13 at 21:33

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