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Cant do "mount/umount" on USB flash drive as regular user

Hello!
This is my problem: can't mount USB flash drive as regular user.
When I try to mount error msg appears:

Code:

Could not mount device

The reported error was:

mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usb

When I execute:

Code:

ls -l /dev/sda1

brwxrwxrwx  1 root disk 8, 1 1995-04-29 12:33 /dev/sda1

because I have already set '777' on /dev/sd1.

This is my fstab:

Code:

/dev/hda3        swap            swap        defaults        0  0

/dev/hda9        /                ext3        defaults        1  1

/dev/hda10      /home            ext3        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda8        /tmp            ext3        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda6        /usr            ext3        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda7        /var            ext3        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda1        /win_c          ntfs        ro              1  0

/dev/hda5        /win_d          ntfs        ro              1  0

/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      auto        noauto,owner,users,rw  0  0

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner    0  0

devpts          /dev/pts        devpts      gid=5,mode=620  0  0

proc            /proc            proc        defaults        0  0

/dev/sda1        /mnt/usb        vfat  

pamconsole,exec,noauto,owner,users,noatime,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-15,managed 0 0

My user belongs both to 'root' and 'users' group.

Does anybody knows where is the problem?
<Slackware 10.2, kernel 2.4.33>

Thanks!!

Try this line in your /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0

It works!!

I changed it into:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0

Thanks!!

As a follow up, you might consider using a udev device instead of /dev/sda1 to mount your drive. If you have things set up properly (a topic about which google can point you to adequate information) then you can always mount a particular device on a particular mount point.

For example, when you plug in your digital camera and it comes up as /dev/sda1 also, you don't end up mounting it on /media/thumbdrive. udev can give it a different node name based on lots of parameters, manufacturer or serial number for example. You could have udev create a node /dev/camera for the camera, /dev/thumbdrive for the thumbdrive, and then in fstab you would reference /dev/camera and /dev/thumbdrive instead of /dev/sda1.

I've found that convenient anyway...

--Chad