mount permissions

kox444 · 08-12-2012, 02:53 PM

Every time when I want to mount a partition in nautilus I get prompted to enter password. This is kinda annoying. I use Debian with Gnome2 (like it matters anyway).How do I give myself permissions to mount whatever I want without authorization?

honeybadger · 08-12-2012, 04:08 PM

This is a secutrity feature of Debian - it will by default not mount any other partition.
To do so you woill have to manually edit the /etc/fstab file. Make a backup of the orignal file before you edit the file.
Hope this helps.

kox444 · 08-12-2012, 05:10 PM

I added
UUID=13237583-ec59-4f95-8083-460f4b3a515f /media/newfilesystem ext4 defaults 0 0
line to it, and it doesn't mount automatically, instead when I try to mount it shows error: mount: only root can mount /dev/sda6 on /media/newfilesystem

I just want to not be prompted when I mount a filesystem, mounting automatically at startup would be a good thing too.

jschiwal · 08-12-2012, 06:07 PM

Add the "user" mount option. I always add the user_xattr and acl options to add these features.

If this is an external drive, use either the "noauto" or "nofail" options. If the drive isn't plugged in, you don't want booting to fail. The noauto will not mount it during boot. The nofail option will try to mount it at boot, but not drop you into the rescue shell if it fails.

You should really read through the mount man page to familiar yourself with the booting options.

kox444 · 08-16-2012, 04:10 PM

They are internal HDD partitions. Detected automatically. I added user option and everything is almost perfect. What's wrong is that I have new devices that are mountpoints I gave. When I click them, it mounts the device + it's taking time to mount the same device again and it returns access error. This entries are just unnecessary, they take up the space. I just have 2 devices for same partition.

Xeratul · 09-23-2012, 07:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kox444

Every time when I want to mount a partition in nautilus I get prompted to enter password. This is kinda annoying. I use Debian with Gnome2 (like it matters anyway).How do I give myself permissions to mount whatever I want without authorization?

you could allow everyone to use it, as it, into your /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/sdi1       /media/usbpen     vfat    rw,users,noauto  0       0