On Tuesday 08 January 2008, Dotan Cohen 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. >
What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to the plugdev group. Here are my groups and I can do the usb drive thing: dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev fuse powerdev John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
