Hello.
As you can see in the subject field, I am asking how to mount my USB pendrive form a terminal? I know that Mepis has an automount feature for such devices, but I created a user profile for my mom, and I didn't give mount rights for her. To be clear, I don't want to give mount rights for her. This user profile also works as an internet browsing profile too, so this little restriction makes the system more secure (there are some personal data on other partitions). So: the automount function doesn't work any more. I tried the mount command, but it says there is no such device or it is not in the fstab. I tried the mount command of course as root. Some months ago I was given an advice not to add entries for pendrives into the fstab, so I didn't add anything. So, my question: how to mount my pendrive from console (using root mode), without adding mount permissions to user profile, without adding anything to fstab and without typing kilometer long commands? Thanks for reading, and trying to answer.

Assume the pendrive is /dev/sda1 and you want to mount it at /media/pendrive, then you should be able to mount it as a priveleged user withThere is a wrapper called pmount that, IIRC, the Debian folks created to allow non-priveleged users to mount things such as pendrives. This might be something you want to install for mom. If you use pmount, the command would beAdditionally, you might want to create and alias so mom doesn't need to type so muchThen mom just executes the command pen to mount the pendrive.

Assuming the device is sda1 (which it should be if you are using IDE drives and it is a standard format flash drive) you would do:

Where mountpoint is the actual directory you want to mount it to. You can either use one of the existing ones, or just create a new directory.

Could read writing udev rules and allow her to mount that one particular pen drive . thats what i do for my wife and debian auto mounts it but she can't mount anything else (like my usb drive) and i can't mount hers. The beauty of this is limiting access but still allowing the automount features.

edit
Think mounting is something like:
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/mountpoint

just make sure the mountpoint exist. this should work if you don't want a fstab entry.

Thanks Guys!
That method of Arow is extremely helpful. Thanks! I didn't know about that pmount prog, but now I do . Everything just works fine now.