I'm using fedora 9 64-bit edition. I've two partitions, FAT32 and NTFS. I added
the following two lines to my /etc/fstab to enable mounting the two drives from
the command line:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/fat auto
noauto,users/dev/sda6 /mnt/drvE auto noauto,users
The /dev/sdb1 represents the FAT32 partition, while /dev/sda6 represents the
NTFS one. The two lines are identical(except for the device name and mount
point of each).
I tried to mount the FAT32 partition as a normal(non-root) user, and it mounted
perfectly.
Now when I issue the command:
mount /mnt/drvE
as a normal user(non-root), mount doesn't produce any error. However when I
test the list of mounted filesystems using the mount command without any
parameters, I don't get my drive(/dev/sda6) in the mount list. Needless to say,
the mount point directory is empty after mounting(since obviously no drive was
mounted). Note that I can mount the NTFS partition pretty well as root, so
there's no error with the partition or the NTFS driver.
So I think the problem now is related to something about the ntfs driver(or
something dependent) requiring root privileges(or some elevated privileges) to
mount ntfs folders. I knew that at some time, ntfs depended on fuse, and that
there was/were a specific user and/or group that was/were related to fuse.
There was some procedure to be a member of that group to grant access to
fuse(and hence ntfs driver).
Does anyone have some information about a proposed solution or workaround?
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