mount and umount

Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 22 20:26:15 EDT 2003


You also probably want to use the 'usermount' command, rather than 'mount'.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> try "users" instead of "user"
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:33, Asheville Joe wrote:
> 
> > 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
> > > ----------------------------------
> > > "I can assure you the flying saucers, given that they exist, are not
> > > constructed by any power on earth." --Harry S. Truman; White House Press
> > > Conference, Washington DC, April 4, 1950.
> 
> -- 
> Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> 


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