Evren Yurtesen wrote:
I tried to let my user to mount floppy however it doesnt work...see below:

%ls -al /dev/fd0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0,  98 Jun 30 18:22 /dev/fd0
%ls -al /mnt
total 4
drwxrwxrwx   2 root  wheel  512 May  1  2005 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel  512 Jun 30 18:21 ..
%mount /dev/fd0 /mnt
mount: /dev/fd0: Operation not permitted
%sysctl -a | grep vfs.usermount
vfs.usermount: 1
%uname -a
FreeBSD perpetual.my.domain 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jun 23 20:07:07 EEST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PERPETUAL i386
%


The same problem exists for dos partitions etc. am I missing something here?

Thanks,
Evren
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Well, the mount point has to be "owned" and have suitable permissions for mounting.

For example, to mount my DVD drive while NOT logged on as root, I have a mounting point:

$HOME/cdrom

in my home directory and an appropriate entry in my /etc/fstabs.

jmc

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