How to mount and umount a USB pen drive without being root?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Thu Nov 9 09:03:42 UTC 2006


On Thursday 09 November 2006 05:33, Ed Landaveri wrote:
> Anne,
> Try this, create two aliases on your .bashrc:
>
> alias gumount='gnome-mount -u -d /dev/sda1'
> alias gmount='gnome-mount -d /dev/sda1'
>
> Just replace /dev/sda1 with teh /dev/whatever your system uses for  the usb
> pen drive. Log off and back on and you'll have it! Regards,
>
Thanks for the suggestion, Ed, but I'm quite happy with the way it works.  O'm 
always careful, but that's a habit developed when floppy drives had the same 
problem.

Anne
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