Still Unable to mount /media/zip as regular user
Bill Perkins
perk at iag.net
Sun Nov 20 13:56:30 UTC 2005
Ed Landaveri wrote:
> Thanks Alexander for your reply. I went through the man pages with all
> the option the last one I've tried:
> /dev/hdb4 /media/zip auto
> user,exec,dev,suid 0 0
> but I still get:
> [ed at mybox~]$ mount /media/zip
> mount: special device /dev/hdb4 does not exist
> even thoough /dev/hdb4 is there. I need to be root to mount the device:
> [root at mybox ~]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /media/zip/
> Then it get's mounted. Why I can mount the cdrom but no the zip drive?
> These are they descriptions on /dev:
> [root at mybox ed]# stat /dev/hdb4
> File: `/dev/hdb4'
> Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 block s!
> pecial file
> Device: dh/13d Inode: 107552 Links: 1 Device type: 3,44
> Access: (0640/brw-r-----) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 6/ disk)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Access: 2005-11-20 00:17:10.269227776 -0800
> Modify: 2005-11-20 00:17:10.269227776 -0800
> Change: 2005-11-20 00:17:10.000000000 -0800
> [root at mybox ed]# stat /dev/hdc
> File: `/dev/hdc'
> Size: 0 Blocks: 0 IO Block: 4096 block
> special file
> Device: dh/13d Inode: 666 Links: 1 Device type: 16,0
> Access: (0600/brw-------) Uid: ( 500/ ed) Gid: ( 6/ disk)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ! Access: 2005-11-19 23:29:03.000000000 -0800
> Modify: 2005-11-19 13:25:11.658032824 -0800
> Change: 2005-11-19 21:26:42.000000000 -0800
>
> Do I need to tweak somehow the block devices? Has anyone gone through
> the same issue? Thanks a lot!
> Eddie
> Linux roolz! ---Always!
>
Check the Uid in the above outputs- I think the problem is there.
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