Mounting digital camera, /etc/fstab joke ?

[Frank Clements]

Try with options user,rw,owner

the user option will allow users to mount the fs (i believe), otherwise
only root can mount it.

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Waugh [mailto:twaugh at redhat.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:21 AM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Mounting digital camera, /etc/fstab joke ?


On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:45:33PM +0100, Martin Andersen wrote:

> When I turn on my Sony DSC-P31 USB camera, a new
> line is added to /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sda1               /mnt/camera             auto    
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> 
> Very nice, but the system doesn't mount the camera. ls /mnt/camera 
> shows nothing. So I need to do mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera for

> getting access to the camera (only as root).

'mount /mnt/camera' as non-root console user doesn't work?  It should.

I think you should be able to get it to work by just right-clicking on
the background desktop and going to the Disks menu.

Tim.
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