On Thu 10 Mar 2011 at 12:39:16 -0600, Jason Hsu wrote: > pmount is included with Puppy Linux. Is this the reason I've found Puppy > Linux to be the best at copying files from failing hard drives when other > distros fell short on this task? I would have thought not. From pmount(1): pmount ("policy mount") is a wrapper around the standard mount program which permits normal users to mount removable devices without a matching /etc/fstab entry.