Hi all, I solved the problem. I put all my mount point into /mnt while SuSE by default put them in /. I read a lot about the mount command and the fstab, and I was extra sure that the infamous line in my /etc/fstab should work. In fact it was the file permission of /mnt to give me problems. For a reason I don't understand the permissions were: d--------- root root /mnt in fact only root could access mnt while, according to my fstab, every user could mount the msdos partition: /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos vfat noauto,user,umask=000 0 0 where: noauto -> the msdos filesystem is not mounted at boot user -> Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. This option implies the options noexec, nosuid and nodev. This options is necessary otherwise you won't be able to mount this file system as ordinary user. umask-> set the bitmask permissions that are not present. Usually umask is set (see file /etc/profile) to 022 which means: rwx for the owner of the file, execute and read for group and others. The 2 bit in the umask force to exclude the permission bit related to 2 i.e write permission. The file systems, unless overridden by specific options in the fstab file, are mounted rw by default, hence you don't need to explicity put "rw" in the fstab. I changed the permission of the mnt directory to: drwx_r_xr_x root root /mnt (the x, for a directory means access not execute) and everything went weel. I am surprised on how much blind (brain - blind, I mean) I can be. Sometimes I happen to get up on the wrong side of the bed. My bed has a side on the wall. Maurizio -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
