How to mount and umount a USB pen drive without being root?
Simon Andrews
simon.andrews at bbsrc.ac.uk
Wed Nov 15 13:31:40 UTC 2006
oleksandr korneta wrote:
>
>
> on 11/05/2006 06:49 PM Craig White wrote:
>> On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 23:42 +0000, Paul Smith wrote:
>>> Dear All
>>>
>>> How to mount and umount a USB pen drive without being root?
> What bothers me that the behavior in fc6 is different from fc4. What I
> used to do was to turn off the automount of the removable storage in
> gnome-volume-properties and mount everything manually, using the fact
> that the mounting node was immediately created in /media when, say, a
> pendrive was plugged in. It gives me kind of confidence that everything
> is under my control... :)
>
> Now I see (fc6) that despite the fact that the drive is recognized
> properly (/dev/sdaX is created) and it appears in nautilus under
> "computer" the mounting point in /media is not created anymore and no
> record in fstab until you mount the drive through the
> right_click/double_click. So there is no way to mount it from command
> line (or at list I dont know about any) and I have to open anutilus
> every time I want to mount something.
You can still do this from the command line, but you need to use
gnome-mount instead of a normal mount if you're a normal user.
'gnome-mount -d /dev/sdaX' will create a mount point under /media and
will mount the device there. You can use gnome-eject to unmount the device.
Details are in info gnome-mount (there's no man page for some reason).
It a bit more of a pain than having the automount to /media, but it does
provide a workround from the command line.
Simon.
It seems like now hal is not even
> using /etc/fstab for creating the record about the removable media... We
> are moving further and further away from good old linux... Does anyone
> know the way to rollback to the old behavior?
>
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