Thanks for the reply David. I am using suse 10.0 currently. Althought the os manage to detect my thumbdrive when I insert it but it will not mount it correctly. That why I need to use mount.
Normally, I will issue these command to mount my thumbdrive. (at root) umount /dev/sda1 umount /dev/sda mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash But with these, I cannot write to my thumbdrive with my normal user account. So, I am thinking, should I troubleshoot the hotplug or just solve the normal use account mounting issue. Please advise me. Thanks. On 1/5/06, David Bolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Chong Zan Kai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:- > > >Hi, > > > >May I know how should I mount my thumbdrive with normal user account? > > What you'll probably find is that, after plugging it in, a new directory > is created under /media. As an example, when I plug my USB pen-drive > into my machine, a new directory "/media/usbdisk" is created. In the > case of a FAT32 device, the contents of the device don't appear to have > a specific user/group associated with it. However, once a user looks in > that directory, the contents become "owned" by that user. > > In other words, if you have more than one user using the machine, > whoever is looking at the contents is the "owner" of the files unless > more than one user is looking at the files at almost the exact same > time. A little experimentation shows that two users performing the same > "ls -l" command upto two seconds apart gives the files "owner" as the > one who performed the command first. A three second gap is enough for > the "ownership" to swap. > > >I manage to mount my thumbdrive with my root account. However, when I try > to > >mount it with my normal user account, it said that only root can mount > only. > > > >So, may I know what should I do now? Please advise me. > > Don't bother using mount. Just plug it in and, after a few moments, > hotplug should have picked it up and created the mount point for it. > Just looking into the directory is enough for it to be mounted. > > One annoying feature that I have noticed with both SUSE 9.3 and 10.0[0], > is that a device mounted this way doesn't show it's free capacity with > "df" and I have to either guess just how much free space is left, or > temporarily mount the file-system as root to find out. > > > [0] same applies to 10.1alpha as well, which doesn't really surprise me. > > Regards, And have a Happy New Year > David Bolt > > -- > Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: > http://www.distributed.net/ > AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS > 3.11 > AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6 | Falcon 14Mb TOS > 4.02 > AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 | STE 4Mb TOS 1.62 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Best Regars, Chong Zan Kai
