On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:02 PM, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Henry wrote: > > Hi, > > I've just reinstalled a windows computer with debian today. While I > > can add an entry to fstab to allow user to be able to mount an > > external drive, it won't allow flexible usage of external > > drive/thumbdrive. > > If you are using a recent enough version of debian (etch or later), > just adding the user to the floppy group should be enough. > > # adduser <username> floppy > > Next time the user logs in, plugging in an external drive automatically > mounts it. Interestingly, the user is already in floppy group (and plugdev). I can mount thumbdrive and HFS+ now but NTFS still could not be mounted. I just installed ntfs-3g, gonna see if that makes any difference.
Thanks for that though. > > > > I realized that Ubuntu allows users to plug just > > about anything and have it automatically mounted. > > Funny that you mention this, since I am finding it difficult to disable > that 'feature' in Ubuntu. Apparently it is not as simple as removing the > user from the floppy group (or plugdev, in case of ubuntu) Yeah, I've been following that thread too. ;) Can't help there though, I've tried Ubuntu three times now (in span of more than a year) and still couldn't make myself liking it at all. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
