Re: [PLUG] Mounting USB flash drive

2018-11-11 Thread John Jason Jordan
Also, I find it is better to give the partition a label with gparted and then use the label in fstab rather than /dev/sd??.Not only does this eliminate confusing fstab as to which device to mount, but it also means that my label is what appears in the GUI file manager, so I am also less likely to

Re: [PLUG] Mounting USB flash drive

2018-11-11 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com wrote: try user not users in mount point options Hi, Tomas, Okay, but on other hosts it's always been users and worked with no issues. Thanks, Rich ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org

[PLUG] Mounting USB flash drive

2018-11-11 Thread Rich Shepard
In /etc/fstab is this entry: /dev/sdc1 /mnt/flash vfat auto,users,rw 0 0 When I try to mount it as a user the system tells me that only root can mount /dev/sdc1 on /mnt/flash. What might cause this response? Rich ___ PLUG mailing list