Non-root USB-mount: How to?[SOLVED]

[Hiisi]

> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:17:50 -0500
> From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>
> Subject: Re: Non-root USB-mount: How to?
> To: "Community assistance, encouragement,	and advice for using
> 	Fedora." <fedora-list at redhat.com>
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> Hiisi wrote:
> > Dear Fedora-Folks!
> > I have FC11 system, running in a text mode most of the time. I would
> > like to mount USB-flash under ordinary user (not root only). Here is
> my
> > /etc/fstab:
> > #
> > # /etc/fstab
> > # Created by anaconda on Sun Jun 14 21:32:42 2009
> > #
> > # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under
> '/dev/disk'
> > # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or vol_id(8) for
> more
> > info
> > #
> > UUID=783c1044-238d-4ce7-adef-11f71fdc8abf /boot 
ext3
> > defaults        1 2
> > /dev/mapper/vg_imt-lv_root /                       ext4    defaults 
1
> 1
> > /dev/mapper/vg_imt-LogVol03 /var                    ext4    defaults 
1
> 2
> > /dev/mapper/vg_imt-LogVol02 /home                   ext4    defaults 
1
> 2
> > /dev/mapper/vg_imt-lv_swap swap                    swap    defaults 
0
> 0
> > tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults 0 0
> > devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  defaults 0 0
> > sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults 0 0
> > proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults 0 0
> > /dev/sdb1        /media/fl        auto user,noauto    0 0
> > /dev/sdc1        /media/fl1        auto user,nouato    0 0
> >
> > I added last two lines for the task. But it doesn't work properly. I
> > have 2 USB-disks. One of them is an old 126 MB Transcend drive, vfat
> > type. I can mount it from non-root account simply typing 'mount
> > /media/fl', when it is plugged into /dev/sdb1. But I can't mount it 
to
> > the second USB-port (/dev/sdc1). If I try 'mount /media/fl1' I have
> the
> > following error:
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
> >       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >       dmesg | tail  or so
> > The other USB-drive is 2 GB Kingston, vfat either. I can mount it 
from
> > root account using mount /dev/sdc1 /media/fl1. But have the above
> error
> > when trying to mount it under non-root account. What the deal? Could
> > anybody help me? Thanks in advance.
> >
> You can try running gnome-mount to mount as a user.
>
> To make your fstab entries work, you will need to give your
> partitions a uuid, and use the uuid in fstab. You would replace
> /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdc1 with something like:
>
> UUID=87eedd14-6bf2-4e7a-a4d9-fe23dd6f021c
>
> Your uuid would be different, but that gives you the idea.
>
> Mikkel
> --
>
>   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
Thank you Mikkel!
There were already entries starting with UUID=<somevalue> in /etc/fstab. 
For example for /boot directory. I just needed to look carefully or read 
MAN. /dev/sdc1 would does the task either but only for one USB port. 
UUID will work for any USB port on the machine. The problem was, as I 
already told, in my inattention. I wrote mistakenly 'nouato' instead 
'noauto' in the last entry. I found that with a help of dmesg | tail
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