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Ideally I would like any user to be able to mount /dev/hdc6 as rw, but I've fiddled with fstab for a while and haven't been able to write to hdc6 from a normal account. Is something amis in my fstab? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Yep - you need to make sure that 'normal users' are in a group that allows writing to /mnt/hdc6.
The 'easiest' way to do this would be to make the permissions on this directory as drwxrwxrwx - so as root run 'chmod 777 /mnt/hdc6' and now everyone will be able to write to that directory.
No, actually "user" is just fine. I've been using it in my fstab for years.
From the Unix man pages:
Common for all types of file system are the options ``noauto'' (do not mount when "mount -a" is given, e.g., at boot time), ``user'' (allow a user to mount), and ``owner'' (allow
device owner to mount), and ``_netdev'' (device requires network to be
available). The ``owner'' and ``_netdev'' options are Linux-specific.
For more details, see mount(8).
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