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.

sometimes the kernel developers decide only root should be able to do stuff that
messes with hardware like mount and dismount

is there any way to get around this setting???

Chansen,
how does look your /etc/fstab ?

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

Try this

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick vfat umask=000,users,noauto,owner,rw,sync,dirsync 0 0

Brian1
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Brian1,
Thank you so much
it works like a charm.

thanks