Re: cant i mount fixed drive with write access??
Hi,
On 10/12/07, Mumia W.. <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 10/12/2007 05:03 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> He only needs to change the permissions on /media/backup *after* he's
> mounted the partition.
Thanks. I should go and kill myself!
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Regards
PK
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