Hi.

I am sitting in front of my work computer and would like to mount a removable (usb) disk somehow.

Problem:
a) The disk is not in the fstab
b) I don't have root access
c) pmount is not present

This is a debian box, cat /proc/version yields
Linux version 2.6.15.2 (root@tapc) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #2 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 2 12:40:40 PST 2006

dmesg tells me that the disk is recognized OK, but there is no corresponding fstab entry. Also, KDE (3.3) does not pop up an icon on the desktop.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
f

I'm afraid not. Read this document for details: http://www.bellevuelinux.org/etc_fstab.html

If I understand it, "user" must be specified in the fstab file, and you have to be root to edit it.

Koen Plessers

Hi Koen,

Thanks for the quick reply. In the end the admin agreed to add an fstab entry on my local machine so that fixes it for me.

Best,
f