FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.
Patrick O'Callaghan
pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 13:41:05 UTC 2008
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:16 -0400, max bianco wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
> > user?
> >
> > If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
> > but the device is not mounted. As root the same command mounts the
> > device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
> >
> Thats because by default only root can use the mount command. So the
> question is which group can you add yourself too that has that
> permission? or is it simply a matter of the command not being in the
> users path? I am running F8 not FC6 so others can maybe provide better
> responses but i don't believe that the solution is more complex than
> that.
If it was just a permissions problem, 'mount' would give an error
message. Likewise if it wasn't in the user's path (it's possible though
unlikely that $PATH gets him a different version of 'mount'; using
'/bin/mount' would get round that).
poc
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