Re: Only root can mount my memory stick

[Hendrik Sattler <ubq7@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Am Donnerstag, 15. September 2005 00:02 schrieb David Pye:
> > 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.
> 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.

Or even better, install pmount and forget about /etc/fstab for things like 
memory sticks.

HS