mounting external harddisk with fstab-sync as a non-root user

[David Zeuthen]

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 00:34 +0800, Didier Casse wrote:
> How to enable Gnome or fstab-sync to mount the drive so that a normal
> user can read it?

This is known to work out of the box with vfat, other file systems (such
as ext3) have permission bits that may mean you cannot read or write the
files; it all depends on what file system you are using. Bypassing that
doesn't sound like a particular good idea to me. Using such file systems
on removable media is not a very good idea either IMHO.

David