Dotan Cohen schreef: > On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 01/09/08 02:21, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> On 09/01/2008, John Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> What are your groups that you belong to? You might have to add yourself to >>>> the plugdev group. >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups >>> feisty adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev >>> lpadmin powerdev admin >> Since this is a Feisty Fawn box, and Ubuntu doesn't do everything >> the same way that Debian does, it might behoove you to ask these >> questions on the Ubuntu Forums. > > I will. I find that technical knowledge is often replaced by MS > bashing there, but I'll take my chances. > >> Anyway, why do you have an entry for it in /etc/fstab? The Big >> Desktops will automount any USB drive you plug in. > > Because HAL wasn't automounting it, and I could not mount it > read/write for users. Googling the problem led me to believe that I > needed an fstab entry. Indeed, I still believe that I do, otherwise it > gets mounted with the wrong encoding and Hebrew filenames show up as > ??? or gibberish. It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then mount under /media/sdb1 with read-write privileges for the user that mounted the drive. If you want a user to be able to read-write with a root-mount, make sure you state the proper rights in the fstab-entry. Make a group that is allowed to read-write to the device, and add /dev/sdb1 /media/usb auto rw,users,noauto,gid=xxx,umask=007 0 0 with xxx replaced by the id of that group (or give system wide read-write privileges by stating umask=000) As fat doesn't support a proper security-model, you have to specify that yourself. Else only root can read. Good luck!
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