Judy,
Yes, add the "user" option, which allows any user to mount.
But I would also make a backup copy of fstab ;-)
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: Judith Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 5:43 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Managing Zip, CD-ROM, and floppy
drives
> Dennis wrote:
> >> once you do a umount on the zip drive you must place
another disk in
> the drive and then type in console "mount /mnt/zip"
assuming that is
> what it is called in your fstab file. so if you umount
you have to then
> mount again. <<
>
> I thought I was doing that, but today I discovered that I
was writing
> "mount /mnt /zip" instead of "mount /mnt/zip". It was that
extra space
> that was preventing the new disk from being mounted. So
one problem
> solved.
>
> However, I can't mount and unmount zip disks as user, only
as root. I
> checked my /etc/fstab file and found this line:
> /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs-vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
>
> Should I put a "user" in there somewhere, or "users" so
anyone could
> insert and eject zip disks? I read man supermount and man
mount and
> couldn't figure out anything to solve my problem. I didn't
want to
> experiment with editing /etc/fstab until I knew what I
should put in, if
> anything.
> --Judy Miner
>
>
