I'm migrating from Gentoo to Ubuntu 22.04. Traditionally, I have all my firefox profiles on a seperate partition mounted at /profiles
which is mounted via this line in /etc/fstab
:
PARTUUID="..." /profiles ext4 data=writeback,barrier=0,nobh,commit=120,nofail,noatime,nodiratime 0 0
Now, I figured firefox comes as a snap package, and I have issues with that (off topic) so I installed it via the mozillateam ppa. Now, this firefox can read/write my profiles only if I copy them into my user's $HOME
, but it says permission denied when I try to make the profile manager use any of the profiles on /profiles or create new profiles there. In the terminal, I can read/write just fine inside /profiles.
After a bit of research, it seems like, Ubuntu's software center has some kind of options to allow R/W access to removable media, which I suppose my /profiles partition counts as (see this answer or this answer). I don't understand how this is done and I really really don't want this extra layer of "security". I want my permissions handled by chown
and chmod
and that's it. Can I disable this hidden mechanism of denying R/W access to removable media somehow?
Thanks :)