Redhat mounting button question

orange400 · 09-22-2004, 02:27 AM

For convienience, I have added a few mount buttons to my taskbar near the notification area. I have captive-ntfs support installed, so I thought it would be neat to have a mount button for it. However, I can't mount it on demand because it says only root can. However, I can control the mounting of my floppy and cdroms. What can I do to mount on the fly like this without getting this error message?

coolfrog · 09-22-2004, 04:27 AM

Hi,
Why don't you try making an entry into fstab. But that won't be a on the fly.

orange400 · 09-24-2004, 03:51 AM

I was playing around with fstab a little, but wan't able to get it to work right

Here's my fstab right now:

Code:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom1             udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/captive-shared captive-ntfs defaults,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_xp captive-ntfs defaults,noauto,owner 0 0

What can I do to it to fix it?

coolfrog · 09-24-2004, 07:51 AM

Hi,
In your fstab you can see the last two rows as :

Quote:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/captive-shared captive-ntfs defaults,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_xp captive-ntfs defaults,noauto,owner 0 0

There are two ways you can go along :
1) replace the 'defaults,noauto,owner' by umask 0000
2) replace he 'defaults,noauto,owner' by uid='Your User ID',gid='Your Group ID'

Hope that helps.
Worth a try.

orange400 · 09-30-2004, 05:51 AM

Tried it, but it didn't do much

orange400 · 09-30-2004, 04:25 PM

michaelk · 09-30-2004, 07:31 PM

BTW have you read the man page for mount and fstab?

Try the option user?