--- Matt Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I have just bought a 256MB Verbatim USB flash drive > to make it easier to > transfer files between home and university. When I > plug the drive into my USB > port Mandrake recognises the drive and creates a > mount point '/mnt/removable/' > to which it mounts the drive. This allows me to > acess the drive and read and > write to it. My problem is that I would like to be > able to unmount the drive > without logging in as root (at the moment Mandrake > only allows root to unmount > the drive). I would also like to have a permanant > mount point that I can link > to from my home directory, I don't mind mounting > and unmounting the drive > manually (this is very quick in Rox-Filer). I have > tried creating a separate > mount point for the drive and adding a new line in > fstab but when I plug the > drive in Mandrake just creates '/mnt/removable' > preventing me from mounting the > drive at my mount point. > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could > improve the situation with > the drive? > Cheers, > Matt. > > -- > Matt Smith > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If I understand your problem correctly , you want to change premissions for the mount point , Try chmod 666 /mnt/removable <, one thing to consider this gives everyone premission to unmount the drive . If I am mistaken in this I am sure that others will correct me and the fix is very easy .
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