Re: cant i mount fixed drive with write access??

[Jörg-Volker Peetz <peetz@scai.fraunhofer.de>]

P Kapat wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been banging my head for quite a few hours now. Can't I mount a
> fixed (internal SATA) drive with write access as a normal user? Here
> is the relevant line from fstab:
> 
> /dev/sdb1       /media/backup   ext3    user,noauto,rw        0       0
> 
> $ ls -l /media/backup
> drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 03:12 /media/backup
> 
> $ mount /dev/sdb1
> $ ls -l /media/backup
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 03:12 /media/backup
> 
> Why am I loosing the write access??
> 

Maybe, it's because the directory /media/backup is owned by root?
In order to allow mounting for normal users, I suggest the package pmount.
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Regards,
Jörg-Volker.