[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ... >> Hi, >> HARDY >> I have a drive which at various times in the day and week, I want to >> mount/umount, via cron and a script, in ?/media or another >> folder /media/this-drive-folder/. Because I want to use different >> folders at different mount times (for valid business reasons) the drive >> can not be in fstab, as I understand it, because then I would not have >> the choice of which folder to mount it in. >> >> But - mount wants root only to mount. I think users can mount fstab >> drives if noauto, user (or suid using sudoers?) are used but that does >> not overcome my mount location needs. >> >> So, the crux of all this is, is it possible to mount an ntfs drive that >> is not in fstab, as a user in a script, without needing sudo? >> ... > Hi David, > The only way I know to do what you're trying to do is to > ...
That's like a red flag to a bull. There's *always* more than one way to do it. :-) Here are two more suggestions: 1. Use autofs with two mount points defined, each addressing the same device. e.g., put this in /etc/auto.master: /mymedia /etc/auto.mymedia --timeout=10 # seconds and this in /etc/auto.mymedia: cd -fstype=iso9660,ro,nosuid,nodev :/dev/cdrom hd1 -fstype=auto :/dev/sda hd2 -fstype=ext3 :/dev/sda Then when you want to use the drive, just cd to /mymedia/hd1 and it will be ready to go. 2. Use manual mounting: /dev/sda /mymedia/hd1 ext3 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/sda /mymedia/hd2 ext3 user,noauto 0 0 Then you can just 'mount /mymedia/hd1' as a normal user, and neither point will mount automatically when the system boots. Note that if this is a USB or similar device (firewire, eSATA), you'll probably need to disable automatic mounting of devices with the GNOME tools. (I can't remember how to do this.) Paul
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