On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, Paul Mullen wrote:
> `blkid YOUR_DEVICE_HERE` will tell you.
Thanks for the reminder, Paul.
> You can also mount volumes by their label, which I prefer for removable
> devices like thumb drives, cameras, etc. It's a lot easier to work with
> "DIGICAM" or "32GTHUMB" than
On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 12:03:30PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote:
> > Also. consider using the drive's UUID instead of /dev/sdX as the
> > dev nodes for USB drives are not guaranteed to survive reboot.
>
> That makes sense ... for this drive but not multiple
On Sun, 25 Sep 2016, King Beowulf wrote:
> The file types don't prevent user mount. The mount options can.
Ed,
Thought so.
> Try "noauto,rw,user" instead. "auto' can trigger a root mount ...
OK. I did not understand the roles of auto and noauto.
> Also. consider using the drive's UUID
On 09/25/2016 10:48 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
>I have an external 3T hard drive connected to hosts via a usb cable. In
> /etc/fstab I defined it as
>
>/dev/sdb /mnt/hd ext3 auto,users,rw 0 0
>
> but only root can mount it. I assume that it's the ext3 file type
> restricting
I have an external 3T hard drive connected to hosts via a usb cable. In
/etc/fstab I defined it as
/dev/sdb /mnt/hd ext3 auto,users,rw 0 0
but only root can mount it. I assume that it's the ext3 file type
restricting mounting to root. Is there a specification that would allow
