On Fri, 07 Jan 2000, Serge Rey wrote about, Enable user mounting of internal zip
drive?:
> I'd like to configure fstab so that normal users can mount, read and
> write an internal zip drive
> Currently, I'm only able to to mount it as root.
>
> I've read the mini-how to and added the following line to my /etc/fstab
> file and rebooted:
>
> /dev/hdd4 /zip vfat noauto,rw,user,nosuid,sync,mode=0777
>
> however, after this, when a user issues
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdd4 /zip
>
> the response is "only root can do that"
The error is rather misleading, it means or i think i am correct in saying,
it means only root can use 2 options in the mount command like that.
Try;
mount /zip
> While root can mount the drive to /zip, and after this a user can copy
> files from /zip to their writeable directories, user cannot
> write to /zip. So I'd like to enable users to be able to mount the zip
> drive as well as read and write without having root do the
> mounting. How can I enable this?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Serge
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