On Sun, 20 Nov 2016, Richard Owlett wrote:

> /etc/fstab wants a specific label, UUID, or /dev/sdX. What I could find
> about pmount.allow did not address issue. After all FAT filesystems do not
> have concept of ownership. Help please.

Richard,

   I have found that most of my USB flash drives are seen by the kernel as
/dev/sdb1 (one is seen as /dev/sdc1). You can determine how your machine
sees your drives by (as root) running 'tail -f /var/log/messages'. This
updates the display as things change.

   If you watch the display as you plug in your thumb drive you'll see a
bunch of activity that ends with something like, '/dev/sdb /dev/sdb1'. Using
this knowledge, edit /etc/fstab to provide a mount point (you'll need to
'mkdir /mnt/<mountpoint>' first). These are from my desktop host:

/dev/sdc1        /mnt/flashdrive  vfat        auto,users,rw  0   0
/dev/sdb1        /mnt/thumb       vfat        auto,users,rw  0   0

   This should work for you, too.

Regards,

Rich
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