user mounting of USB drive...
 

I caught this thread on this same subject , but I don't want to hijack his thread and he's running 64 bit and I am not, so here it is...

I have tried several variations in my /etc/fstab, all result in "Sucks to be you" messages when trying to mount using Xfce right-click > "Mount Volume".

Here's the current (and (#)former) /etc/fstab entries:
#/dev/sdc1 /media/Keepers ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
#/dev/sdc1 /media/Keepers ntfs-3g noexec,users,nodev,rw 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/Keepers ntfs-3g defaults 1 2
#/dev/sdc1 /media/Keepers ntfs-3g noauto,user,rw 1 0

Thank you,

JJ of c9

edit: I can Unmount the volume, but must use "sudo mount -a" to get it up using
in /etc/fstab.

So are you still having issues? You must run the command as sudo in order to mount it. Your last few lines indicate that you were able to mount it.

I can mount as root and umount as user via Xfce > right-click.

Can users not mount these devices?

Thanks!

Users can not mount devices. Almost all distro's should come with some sort of automount process for these via udev. If it is not automatically mounted users should be able to call upon the command with udevtrigger. The slackwiki has a good page on udev you may want to read over.

Hi,

I see you're having the same issue I had. This is what I needed to do to solve it.

1) User must have a write access to the mount point (/media/Keepers) - so either make sure you have it or change the mount point. I guess that by default users are not permitted to write there.
2) User must be a member of "disk" group in order to access the media - see

3) Your /bin/ntfs-3g must have a setuid root, or it won't allow you to mount the devices. According to ChangeLog:

Just run

And it should work. Btw, you don't need to specify the "noexec nodev" in your fstab, the "user" or "users" already implies that - see

You can umount the device as user because that's done via fusermount. To mount ntfs as a user, however, you need to use the ntfs-3g that now needs a setuid root - see above. I was also confused by this.

Thanks to everyone, I got it sorted out.

1. Added myself to disk group.
2. chown root:disk /media/Keepers
3. su
4. chmod u+s /bin/ntfs-3g
5. Logout|in.

/etc/fstab:
mounted with "sudo mount -a" and I can umount and remount it, so it's all gooood.

Done.