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shahon

Member

Registered: 2008-07-22

Posts: 9

Another stupid mount question

Hey everyone...

I'm totally embarrassed to ask something like this but how can I mount as normal user?

Of course as root there isn't any problem but as normal user it wont work.

fstab:

/dev/sdb2     /media/usb_1     auto     rw,users,auto,exec,unhide     0     0

Ok, that the automount won't work is something I allready found out but it should be possible for me as normal user to mount the ext. hd. I always get the "error message", that this just can be done by root (mount /dev/sdb2 /media/usb_1). If I try to mount the device as root/sudo there isn't any problem.

Hope you don't stone me to death 'cause of my stupidness and can help me.

Rgds
shahon

Last edited by shahon (2008-07-26 13:54:18)

vsk

Member

Registered: 2008-05-27

Posts: 70

Re: Another stupid mount question

Hello,

I think your problem is a lack of privelages. Is your user in the hal,storage,dbus,disk,optical groups?
To see what groups are available, simply;

cat /etc/group

Also, to add yourself to a group;

su
# gpasswd -a [username] [group]

e.g:
# gpasswd -a shahon hal

Gluffs

Member

Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 25

Re: Another stupid mount question

Hope you don't stone me to death 'cause of my stupidness and can help me.

Dont feel embarrassed. No question here is stupid, and definatly not in the Newbie section.
Its asking question and geting answers that is the purpose of this forum.

So if you cant find your answers in the wiki pages ask whatever questions you want an answer to,
nobody here will say it is a stupid question or something like that.

shahon

Member

Registered: 2008-07-22

Posts: 9

Re: Another stupid mount question

Thx, but it's not a matter of privelages. I'm in the: hal,storage,dbus,disk,users,audio,video,optical groups.

I'm not really interested in automount but if there isn't any other way I'll try it with AutoFS or something else...

Rgds
shahon

bgc1954

Member

From: Edmonton, AB, Canada

Registered: 2006-03-14

Posts: 1,160

Re: Another stupid mount question

Maybe this post will give you some fresh ideas: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=46944

Hint: the search feature in the forums is your friend.  Most times someone else has already had the problem you're asking about, but not always of course.

And welcome to Arch.

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