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Re: Only root can mount my memory stick



On Wednesday 14 September 2005 01:28, Robert Tilley wrote:
> Last night I installed Kubuntu Preview 5.10 Breezy Beaver and am using the
> same home directory as under Kubuntu 5.04.
>
> Under 5.04, my user could mount & umount my memory stick.  Now, with 5.10
> Preview when the same user right-clicks the memory stick icon and chooses
> "Mount", the message "Only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1." is
> returned.
>
> The same message is given if I plug in my stick and hope for the system to
> recognize the hotplug event.
>
> I know this is not strictly a "pure" KDE question but I have not been given
> access to the ubuntu-list mailing list as of yet.  Any help is much
> appreciated.

It isn't even a debian question either (ubuntu != debian), but anyway:

From a shell, can the user mount /media/sda1?

If not, check you have the fstab line for it containing the string 'user' in 
the options column.

David

>
> Thanks, Bob

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