mount and umount

[Asheville Joe]

One last, related question.  I thought that adding "user" to the fstab 
entry for hdb1 would allow me to mount and umount it as a user.  When I 
try to do that, I get "mount: only root can do that".  What did I do wrong?

Joe

Asheville Joe wrote:

>
> /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda6 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
> none /mnt/cdrom supermount
> dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/dos_hda1 vfat
> iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/dos_hda5 vfat
> iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0,defaults 0 0
> none /mnt/floppy supermount
> dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> /dev/hdb1 /mnt/portable ext3 rw,user,noauto,exec,suid 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
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