Try "mount /media/usb" as a user. On Jan 8, 2008 7:33 PM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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? > -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Crazycomputers
