Well actually my problem was that I had kept "kudzu" in the fstab entry. I took this out and my fstab file is left unchanged (during reboot you do actually see "updating fstab" or something fly by). Thanks for the "user" tip. works fine now.
sam. On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 15:58, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:56:29AM +0200, Samuel Monsarrat wrote: > > I am having a hard time adding my USB Iomega peerless to RH8.0. > > If I add: > > /dev/sdc4 /mnt/peerless auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 > > to /etc/fstab and create /mnt/peerless/, things work up to a point: > > root can mount the peerless drive fine and users can use it but users > > cannot mount the peerless themselves because "only root can do that". > Replace the owner entry with user and all users can mount the device. This may be a >crazy > question but when the lines in fstab disappeared did you reboot, shutdown, or what? >How did you > reboot and were you in runlevel 3 or 5 when you did it? The only time I have seen >lines dissapear > from a file after reboot if the file sysytem was not sync-ed before reboot. >Automatic syncing > happens every 30 seconds or so (or it used to) and some reboot methods sync and some >do not. > At run level 1 syncing is required before you hit a <ctl>-D to reboot. > -- > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > 715 Stadium Dr. > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list >
