Hi Roman,
Thanks again, but no, tried setting unique mount points and that didn't work
neither does mount -t vfat -o user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto /dev/hdd
/mnt/LS - still says only root can do that, guess I'll just have to live with
it.
Poogle
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Roman Korcek wrote:
Hey
I too have a problem like this, I can only mount my zip drive as root.
I have changed every permission I can think of, with no luck 8(
I posted the original question about mount permissions,
I can access my LS120 as user to mount ext2 floppies but if I try as user to
mount as vfat or msdos I
I posted the original question about mount permissions,
I can access my LS120 as user to mount ext2 floppies but if I try as user to
mount as vfat or msdos I get a kfm error message that says only root can do
that. I have tried putting your fstab entry into my fstab file but I still get
the same
pooglefor me, I'm content to open an xterm, 'su -' to root
and then mount. User can then use the mounted device.
To the best of my knowledge, supermount only works for
dos/windows formatted floppies. Use traditional mounting to
access ext2 floppies. Personally, I find it most convenient
Alan, Hi, that is what I do. I just find it frustrating that I can't resolve
the permissions issue but given time I'll get over it.
Poogle
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
pooglefor me, I'm content to open an xterm, 'su -' to root
and then mount. User can then use the mounted
Hey Alan!
Thanks for your help, I'll give it a try.
Craig
- Original Message -
From: "Alan Shoemaker" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: "Craig" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount permissions
Craig wrote:
Craig wrote:
Hey how did you get Mandrake to see your LS-120? I still can't get mine to
work.
[snip]
Craigthe 7.1 installation did it all automatically, here's
the fstab entry it wrote:
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/hda 0 0
The only variable here is which
Thanks for the idea but I've tried it and it doesn't work, the lines in
/etc/fstab are as follows, ext2 works but vfat doesn't (neither does msdos if I
substitute it for vfat)
snip
/dev/hdd/mnt/LS ext2 user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,rw,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd/mnt/LS vfat
Hey how did you get Mandrake to see your LS-120? I still can't get mine to
work.
Craig
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 2:19 PM
Subject: [newbie] Mount permissions
I have got an internal LS120 (in place of my floppy
try entering a terminal
su to root
type: linuxconf [enter]
click Filesystems
click Access Local Drive
Click on each device that you wish to change permissions for: /dev/fd0, /dev/cdrom,
etc...
click Options
make sure that "user mountable" has a check next to it..
You should also leave (or
I have got an internal LS120 (in place of my floppy) it works fine under kde
when I access ext2 "formatted" floppies, but if I try to mount vfat or msdos I
get a kfm error message that says "only root can do this" I can access vfat or
msdos as root or su as a user and mount -t . from a
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