On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:41:22AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > > I goto the root console which is always open on one of my desktops > > & enter 'musb', which is a Bash alias for a 'mount' command; > > Leaving aside the implications of leaving open a root console,
My scripts use pmount and pumount, which are hard-coded to only mount/unmount devices in directory /media. > that mounts the stick as root. That's fine for a FAT filesystem as > you can specify mount options to make it world-readable, but what > about an external drive formatted with ext? What about an external > drive with multiple partitions? pmount/pumount to the rescue. See... http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/pmount.1.html -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
