On 30/12/2013 19:22, Joseph wrote: > On 12/30/13 17:36, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > [snip] >>> >>> With the line in fstab: >>> >>> /dev/sdb1 /media/stick auto noauto,rw,users >>> 0 0 >>> >>> Some USB stick are mounted as root:root and I can not change that >>> even as >>> root. >>> When I remove this like from fstab. >>> The USB stick are mounting correctly as joseph:users owner except >>> they have >>> different mounting location which I don't like. >>> >>> -- >>> Joseph >>> >> >> You can specify the user/group that mounts a device with some mount >> options. I think they are uid=<username>/gid=<groupname> but I'm not >> sure and unfortunatly not on my Linux box at the moment. > > I've tried in fstab: > /dev/sdb1 /media/stick auto > noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=077 0 0 > > but I'm getting an error: > Error mounting system-managed device /dev/sdb1: Command-line `mount > "/media/stick"' exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: wrong fs > type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, > > What am I missing? >
mount cannot auto-identify the fs type on your USB stick, or /dev/sdb1 is the wrong node. blkid as Bruce mentioned will help identify what is really going on. Also, tail -f /var/log/messages, insert the stick, and post the entries that produces. -- Alan McKinnon [email protected]
