[SOLVED] how to mount partitions as user?

liticovjesac · 2008-07-16 07:30:25

Hi everyone.
This is my first post here. I am kind of newbee (using linux for 3 years, mostly ubuntu, redhat, fedora, suse...). As you see I used distros that makes basic staff easy for user. Now I want to try arch. I like what I see. I like the speed of arch and pacman is fastest package manager I ever used. Great job!

Now to the problems.
I use gnome on p3 computer. Have one user created.
1.
As I noticed user is not , by default, member of some groups (like optical). So one have to add user to the group to be able to run some apps (like k3b). Is there some default , "must be member" groups that I should be aware of?
2.
I have 2 hard drives. Sda have sda1 (/ ), sda2 (swap) sda3(empty, ext3) partition.
Second drive is one partition, sdb1 ext3
Problem is that I can't mount partition sda3 and sdb1. I dont know how to do that. There is no lines in /etc/fstab for those partitions thou when I am logged in as user I see those 2 partitions under gnome menu - places. When I try to mount them, as user, I get a message that I'm missing permisssions to do that.
ls /dev lists sdb1 and sda3. That means that system see and recognize all partitions.
I tryed to add lines for those two partitions to /etc/fstab (as I used to do in ubuntu) , and I created mounting point in /media as root , but no luck after reboot.

Any suggestion? What should I do to be able to mount those two partitons as user and to have them mounted when I boot?

Last edited by liticovjesac (2008-07-17 06:11:28)

Hide · 2008-07-16 08:02:11

Nice to see you here, pal

1. These are mine: wheel audio optical storage users

2. Paste here what you wrote in fstab. And don't mount it in /media, but /mnt. /media is only for usb stick etc.

liticovjesac · 2008-07-16 08:09:19

I will post it when I came back home.
I understand it somehow that nautilus like to look in /media. Thats why I choose it as a mounting point.

Nice to see you here

Barrucadu · 2008-07-16 09:09:12

The Beginner's Guide does a good job of listing the groups you need to be in to have a 'normal' Linux experience.

liticovjesac · 2008-07-17 06:10:07

Thanx Barrucadu. I've missed that part.

Otherwise I solved my mounting problem by putting a lines in /etc/fstab that mount sda3 and sdb1 in my home dir. Since I am the only user it doesn't matter.

/dev/sda3 /home/myusername/new_dir ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /home/myusername/new_dir1 ext3 defaults 0 1

Last edited by liticovjesac (2008-07-17 06:10:44)

Hide · 2008-07-17 07:33:32

Hehehe, cool, if it works for you

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#1 2008-07-16 07:30:25

[SOLVED] how to mount partitions as user?

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