gvfs mounts with 0700 permissions

devkit itself defaults to 0700, but does allow clients to specify other mount options (devkit-disks --mount-options "dmask=022" --mount /dev/sdb1). Also, Ubuntu defaulted to mounting external disks with user-only privileges to protect private data.

However, earlier Ubuntu versions allowed you to set individual mount options through the GUI. This functionality isn't currently exposed in nautilus any more.

I remember having discussed this with David recently, and they don't plan to bring back the fine-grained mount options to GNOME; unfortunately I just can't find it right now. Much rather this should become an option like "share this device with all users" somewhere.

There is a similar discussion on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586708

Any progress on this bug?

Is there a way to specify different mount options to devkit?

Why this bug is marked as "Low"?

It is hard-coded. That's bad.

Stripping whatever is hard-coded and reading it to a text file would be great.

How did Nautilus decide the mount options for a FAT or NTFS hot-plugged disk? Where is it written? If it's still some .c file then it should definitely be fixed.

I myself really do hate all the rsync/unison problems I get every time summer comes or every time I change countries, so I would for instance add tz=UTC as a mount option for FAT32 to my configuration file. But if it is really that important that the users who created their files at 6:13 in their dual-boot operating system see it as 6:13 in Ubuntu, then maybe it's better not to have tz=UTC as default, and let rsync users do their manual change. But having to patch .c filees, apt-get build-dep etc etc etc etc, that is ugly.