Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

[Kamaraju Kusumanchi <kamaraju@bluebottle.com>]

On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like
> > /dev/sda1       /home/user/partition  auto    user,auto,exec     0      
> > 0
> >
> > The above line is untested so try it only after reading all the relevant
> > manual pages.
>
> That will not fix his problem.  Since it will automatically mount at
> boot, it will be mounted by root.  That means that only root will be
> able to unmount it.  Of course, this will not fix any of the ownership
> issues.
>

Thanks Roberto! I use

/dev/sda1       /home/user/partition  auto    user,noauto,exec     0      0

to allow the users to mount the USB drive. I did not think of all the 
consequences of changing noauto to auto.

sorry for the noise.

raju