mount question
Steve
zephod at cfl.rr.com
Wed Jan 14 19:31:31 UTC 2009
---- Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 16:23 +0000, Steve wrote:
> > If I let HAL & friends automagically mount my Windows partition mount reports this:
> >
> > # mount
> > ...
> > /dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
> >
> > The problem is that I want this partition mounted on /mnt/c_drive not
> > /media/disk so I tried to add a line to /etc/fstab as follows:
> >
> > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/c_drive fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096
> > 0 0
> >
> > (I started with a type of fuseblk instead of fuse but that didn't work at all
> > and note that fuse is not documented in the mount man page)
> >
> > but then as root
> > # mount /dev/sdb1
> > /bin/sh: /dev/sdb1: Permission denied
> >
> > # ls -l /dev/sdb1
> > brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-01-12 13:24 /dev/sdb1
> >
> > It's not a selinux problem because I'm running in permissive mode:
> > # sestatus
> > SELinux status: enabled
> > SELinuxfs mount: /selinux
> > Current mode: permissive
> > Mode from config file: permissive
> > Policy version: 23
> > Policy from config file: targeted
> >
> > This is on an F8 system and I'm trying to get my backup to work so I can upgrade
> > to F9.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong here?
> ----
> perhaps you are just trying to use too much muscle
Perhaps I am but personally I don't consider editing /etc/fstab to be heavy lifting.
> why not just let it mount like it does and use a bind mount elsewhere...
>
> mount --bind /media/disk /mnt/c_drive
I've no doubt that this will work but there HAS to be a simple way to mount a partition where I want directly. It juts seems so basic.
Steve.
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