Charles Sullivan wrote:
How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
user?
If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
but the device is not mounted. As root the same command mounts the
device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
Here's what I've got. What else do I need to do?
Try the ntfs-config package. This will give you an 'NTFS configuration
tool' (in applications|system tools in FC6), which should make setting
this up easier. There is one possible problem with your fstab, but I'm
not convinced that's what's wrong.
$ ls -l /bin/ntfs-3g
-rwsrwxrwx 1 root root 39052 Nov 8 13:59 /bin/ntfs-3g
I'd note that here, and below, this file should not be world writeable
(the only things in /bin that should be are links).
In /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /simple ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,umask=0 0 0
I can't see anything obviously wrong with these options. Except that
there's no uid specified. The following is what I've got:
/dev/sda1 /media/FreeAgent ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
I've had a go at setting the users option and see the same behaviour as
you on FC6 (silent failure to mount). I don't know if this is fixed in
later versions.
$ ls -dl /simple
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 1 23:18 /simple
Is this what it looks like with the device mounted or without? The
mount point directory does not actually need these permissions, as they
are over-ridden by the mounted filesystem.
$ ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 1 23:58 /dev/sda
brw-rw-rw- 1 cwsulliv disk 8, 1 Apr 2 00:10 /dev/sda1
Again, these are too permissive, should be 'brw-r-----', have you
changed them?
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