Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:17:50 -0500
From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Non-root USB-mount: How to?
To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using
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Hiisi wrote:
> Dear Fedora-Folks!
> I have FC11 system, running in a text mode most of the time. I would
> like to mount USB-flash under ordinary user (not root only). Here is
my
> /etc/fstab:
> #
> # /etc/fstab
> # Created by anaconda on Sun Jun 14 21:32:42 2009
> #
> # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under
'/dev/disk'
> # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for
more
> info
> #
> UUID=783c1044-238d-4ce7-adef-11f71fdc8abf /boot
ext3
> defaults 1 2
> /dev/mapper/vg_imt-lv_root / ext4 defaults
1
1
> /dev/mapper/vg_imt-LogVol03 /var ext4 defaults
1
2
> /dev/mapper/vg_imt-LogVol02 /home ext4 defaults
1
2
> /dev/mapper/vg_imt-lv_swap swap swap defaults
0
0
> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/sdb1 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/sdc1 /media/fl1 auto user,nouato 0 0
>
> I added last two lines for the task. But it doesn't work properly. I
> have 2 USB-disks. One of them is an old 126 MB Transcend drive, vfat
> type. I can mount it from non-root account simply typing 'mount
> /media/fl', when it is plugged into /dev/sdb1. But I can't mount it
to
> the second USB-port (/dev/sdc1). If I try 'mount /media/fl1' I have
the
> following error:
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> dmesg | tail or so
> The other USB-drive is 2 GB Kingston, vfat either. I can mount it
from
> root account using mount /dev/sdc1 /media/fl1. But have the above
error
> when trying to mount it under non-root account. What the deal? Could
> anybody help me? Thanks in advance.
>
You can try running gnome-mount to mount as a user.
To make your fstab entries work, you will need to give your
partitions a uuid, and use the uuid in fstab. You would replace
/dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 with something like:
UUID=87eedd14-6bf2-4e7a-a4d9-fe23dd6f021c
Your uuid would be different, but that gives you the idea.
Mikkel
--
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
Thank you Mikkel!
There were already entries starting with UUID=<somevalue> in /etc/fstab.
For example for /boot directory. I just needed to look carefully or read
MAN. /dev/sdc1 would does the task either but only for one USB port.
UUID will work for any USB port on the machine. The problem was, as I
already told, in my inattention. I wrote mistakenly 'nouato' instead
'noauto' in the last entry. I found that with a help of dmesg | tail
--
Hiisi.
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