On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, greyn wrote about, Mounting Drives:
> I would like to mount my floppy, cdrom and zip drives while logged in as a
> normal user(not root). I tried adding these lines to my /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,users,noauto,unhide
> /dev/fd0 /floppy ext2 users,noauto,unhide
> /dev/sda /zip ext2 users,noauto,unhide
There is your problem, its "user" not "users".
The unhide means show hidden files Lawson.
It is advised to add a 0 0 at the end of the line also, that tells fsck
what to do, 0 0 is do nothing.
> My entire fstab is:
>
> /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda2 /downloads ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hdb1 /common vfat defaults 1 0
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,users,noauto,unhide
> /dev/fd0 /floppy ext2 users,noauto,unhide
> /dev/sda /zip ext2 users,noauto,unhide
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
>
> I then attempt to mount them using:
>
> mount /dev/fd0
>
> However, I get the message:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
> or too many mounted file systems
That means the floppy has no ext2 superblock, its quite possably a DOS
floopy right, so the fstab line would have msdos vfat or fat instaed of
ext2.
> If I try:
>
> mount /dev/fd0 /floppy
>
> I get the message:
>
> mount: only root can do that
That is normal its a security measure, a user can only define one device.
> I can successfully mount them as root using:
>
> mount /dev/sda /zip
That answers the security thing then above. root can a user cant.
Edit fstab properly then try again.
>
> Is there something obvious that I am missing??
>
> TIA,
> greyn
>
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