Re: [ilugd] mounting problems

2007-05-09 Thread Subhasis Ray
Hi Hemant, This may be too late a reply, (you might have already found out the solution) but still here it is man page for mount says Normally, only the superuser can mount file systems. However, when *fstab* contains the *user* option on a line, anybody can mount the corresponding system.

Re: [ilugd] mounting problems

2007-04-26 Thread Sharad Birmiwal
You don't mount /dev/sda but /dev/sda1 (see dmesg output for list of partitions available on sda). Do su first and then try mounting the device. From the same root terminal, see if you are able to see the contents of the partition. Are you sure it has vfat file-system? Mounting it should be as

[ilugd] mounting problems

2007-04-25 Thread hemant ritturaj
Hi all, I am wokring with fedora core 4, I wanted to mount USB disk on my system. when it is plugged in to usb it doesnot automount but it shows the mount point in fstab but when i try to mount it through user it gives a mount error mount: can only be mount bt superuser I tried all the possible

Re: [ilugd] mounting problems

2007-04-25 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 4/25/07, hemant ritturaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wokring with fedora core 4 Any recent for not upgrading to FC6? when it is plugged in to usb it doesnot automount but it shows the mount point in fstab What entry? AFAIK, /etc/fstab is a text file that is not updated by hotplug

Re: [ilugd] mounting problems

2007-04-25 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, On 4/25/07, hemant ritturaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want as i plug the device it should be automounted on the system From documentation I have seen for USB and Fedora Core 4, automount works with autofs. http://blog.rootshell.be/projects/nx7010/#4 Recent distros should automount USB

Re: [ilugd] mounting problems

2007-04-25 Thread Raseel Bhagat
Hi Hemant, On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 hemant ritturaj wrote : Hi all, I am wokring with fedora core 4, I wanted to mount USB disk on my system. when it is plugged in to usb it doesnot automount but it shows the mount Can you check if udevd is running : $ ps -ax | grep udev point in fstab but