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01-17-2005, 12:38 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Utah
Distribution: openSUSE 11
Posts: 13
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USB problems still
I was able to get my linux to recognize and mount my usb stick under root
then when I log in under my account and try to mount the stick I get the message:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usbstick
any help or explaination would be great.
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01-17-2005, 12:47 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2004
Posts: 2,553
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Quote:
only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/usbstick
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sometimes the kernel developers decide only root should be able to do stuff that
messes with hardware like mount and dismount
Last edited by foo_bar_foo; 01-17-2005 at 12:49 PM.
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01-21-2005, 06:28 PM
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#3
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Utah
Distribution: openSUSE 11
Posts: 13
Original Poster
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is there any way to get around this setting???
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01-21-2005, 10:58 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2004
Location: Vienna, Austria
Distribution: Open SuSE 11, Mac OS X 10.5
Posts: 299
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Chansen,
how does look your /etc/fstab ?
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01-22-2005, 06:06 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Utah
Distribution: openSUSE 11
Posts: 13
Original Poster
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LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick vfat noauto,owner,rw 0 0 0
that is how my /etc/fstab looks
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01-22-2005, 06:27 PM
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#6
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2003
Location: Seymour, Indiana
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
Posts: 5,700
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Try this
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick vfat umask=000,users,noauto,owner,rw,sync,dirsync 0 0
Brian1
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01-22-2005, 07:48 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: Utah
Distribution: openSUSE 11
Posts: 13
Original Poster
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Brian1,
Thank you so much
it works like a charm.
thanks
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