Hi - followed FAQ but can't mount USB key as user
Hi all - I've recently installed FreeBSD 6.2-release - very impressed! Just a small problem. I'm unable to mount my USB key as a user. ( I can mount it as root, using the command mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt ) This is what I get when I try to mount it as a user - $ mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /home/andy mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Permission denied $ mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not permitted I followed the instructions in the FAQ ( section 9.23 ) to the letter ( the only change being that that doesn't mention USB devices, so I've substituted the USB device name da0 for the device names there. ) Here are the relevant bits of information - Release - FreeBSD 6.2-release running on a Dell OptiPlex P3 system. Soon after I inserted the USB key, I ran tail - here's the output - $ tail -f /var/log/messages Jan 8 21:37:51 localhost kernel: ad0: 8223MB Seagate ST38410A 3.03 at ata0-master UDMA33 Jan 8 21:37:51 localhost kernel: acd0: CDROM SAMSUNG SC-140B/d005 at ata1-master PIO4 Jan 8 21:37:51 localhost kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a Jan 8 21:40:02 localhost kernel: uhub1: Prolific Technology Inc. USB Embedded Hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 Jan 8 21:40:02 localhost kernel: uhub1: 1 port with 0 removable, self powered Jan 8 21:40:03 localhost kernel: umass0: Prolific Technology Inc. USB Mass Storage Device, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3 Jan 8 21:40:03 localhost kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jan 8 21:40:03 localhost kernel: da0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device Jan 8 21:40:03 localhost kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Jan 8 21:40:03 localhost kernel: da0: 992MB (2031616 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 992C) $ usbdevs addr 1: UHCI root hub, Intel addr 2: USB Embedded Hub, Prolific Technology Inc. addr 3: USB Mass Storage Device, Prolific Technology Inc. $ cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswap sw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad0s1d /home ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0/cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 ( Just before posting here, I was about to add a usb entry to the fstab, but then I thought No - it wasn't needed for root to mount the device, and adding that to the fstab wasn't mentioned in the FAQ that I was carefully following..) $ groups andy andy wheel operator $ cat /etc/rc.conf ( removed my IP address details for the purposes of posting here ) linux_enable=YES moused_enable=YES usbd_enable=YES So, I'm a bit puzzled as to what I might have missed. I've now even rebooted a couple of times, but nothing has changed. I can mount the device as root but not as a user. So, any suggestions are very welcome... Thanks very much for your time :-) - Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi - followed FAQ but can't mount USB key as user
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andy, On Jan 8, 2008 9:48 AM, Andy Elvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - I've recently installed FreeBSD 6.2-release - very impressed! Just a small problem. I'm unable to mount my USB key as a user. ( I can mount it as root, using the command mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt ) This is what I get when I try to mount it as a user - $ mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /home/andy mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Permission denied $ mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not permitted I followed the instructions in the FAQ ( section 9.23 ) to the letter ( the only change being that that doesn't mention USB devices, so I've substituted the USB device name da0 for the device names there. ) hmmm, freebsd.org seems to be broken for me - man devfs.rules - create /etc/devfs.rules: ( substitute wheel for the group you want ) [localrules=10] add path 'da*s*' mode 0660 group wheel - append to /etc/rc.conf: devfs_system_ruleset=localrules - make sure the dir you are mounting on is owned by the user who issues the mount command. - make sure vfs.usermount=1 - reboot after changing devfs.rules rc.conf worked for me, let us know if it worked for you. regards, usleep Hi usleep - many thanks for this! I'll let you know soon :-) Bye for now - - Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Success! ( was - can't mount USB key as user )
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmmm, freebsd.org seems to be broken for me - man devfs.rules - create /etc/devfs.rules: ( substitute wheel for the group you want ) [localrules=10] add path 'da*s*' mode 0660 group wheel - append to /etc/rc.conf: devfs_system_ruleset=localrules - make sure the dir you are mounting on is owned by the user who issues the mount command. - make sure vfs.usermount=1 - reboot after changing devfs.rules rc.conf worked for me, let us know if it worked for you. regards, usleep Hi again - Success! I can now mount USB devices as a user - thanks very much for your help usleep! One of the things that helped (as it usually does ;) ) was having a careful re-read of the docs for USB devices. When I did that, I found that for some silly reason, instead of having 'da*' in my /etc/devfs.rules file, I had 'da*s*' .( Argh. applies face firmly to keyboard. ). Anyway, that now works perfectly. I have more good news. The above stuff was for my USB key. I also have an external USB hard-drive (with the Linux ext2 filesystem on it). When I tried that, at first it didn't work (not surprisingly). A quick search on the net gave me a page that mentioned kldload' (which I've never heard of - anyway, as I thought, it loads modules into the kernel). The example given was for reiserfs, but I tried (as su) kldload ext2fs and then (as normal user) mount -t ext2fs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/andy and it worked! Ahh... now I can get into the thing I've really been looking forward to - pf :-) . That should probably have me being nervous, but it doesn't. I've already done a lot of reading-up on it - it sounds great, and you've got to have a heap of respect for the guy who wrote it.I've already found out about pftop and so on, so that should come in handy Bye for now - - Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
