I have a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer USB drive that I removed the U3 garbage from. I formatted the disk as FAT in a friend's WindowsXP machine. Now, any Windows machine can read and write to the disk, and my Fedora desktop can read and write to it as a regular user. However, my Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 laptop can only write as root.
I have this is my fstab (yes, it is the correct device): /dev/sdb1 /media/usb auto rw,users,noauto 0 0 However, HAL does not auto mount so I must manually mount it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount -o rw /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/ mount: only root can do that [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount -o rw /dev/sdb1 /media/usb/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chown feisty /media/usb/ chown: changing ownership of `/media/usb/': Operation not permitted As you can see, despite the "users" option in fstab, only root can mount. And even then, I cannot change the user. What is to be done? Ideally, HAL would automount this device such that users could write to it. Thanks in advance. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
