FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.

max bianco maximilianbianco at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 17:48:41 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:16 -0400, max bianco wrote:
>  > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > >  How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
>  > >  user?
>  > >
>  > >  If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
>  > >  but the device is not mounted.  As root the same command mounts the
>  > >  device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
>  > >
>  > Thats because by default only root can use the mount command. So the
>  > question is which group can you add yourself too that has that
>  > permission? or is it simply a matter of the command not being in the
>  > users path? I am running F8 not FC6 so others can maybe provide better
>  > responses but i don't believe that the solution is more complex than
>  > that.
>
>  If it was just a permissions problem, 'mount' would give an error
>  message. Likewise if it wasn't in the user's path (it's possible though
>  unlikely that $PATH gets him a different version of 'mount'; using
>  '/bin/mount' would get round that).
>
>  poc
>
He is saying that mount works as root and not a regular user but once
its mounted it works for the user, usually that is a permissions
issue. I know F8 you get an error message but he is on FC6.

Max




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