On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, Richard Adams wrote:
> 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.
The users actually came from the man page for mount. I quote:
If any user should be able to unmount, then use users instead of user in
the fstab line.
I changed my fstab to:
/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,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /aext2 ext2 noauto,user,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /avfat vfat noauto,user,unhide 0 0
/dev/sda /zip ext2 noauto,user,unhide 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
However, when as a user I try:
mount /dev/sda or mount /zip
I get:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda or too many
mounted file systems.
Root can still mount the zip or floppy drives which are ext2 formatted.
Would the file permissions need to be change to access /dev/sda or
/dev/fd0?
Here are the rights for the devices:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 30 14:10 cdrom -> /dev/hdc
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 29 1995 sda
brw-rw-rw- 1 root floppy 2, 0 May 14 1996 fd0
Should I change these?
Thanks to Richard and all those who replied to my email.
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