[Techtalk] User mounting of a NTFS partition

Rudy Zijlstra rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Sun Jul 13 07:38:34 UTC 2008


Kathryn Marks wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Michelle Konzack <
> linux4michelle at tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Evening all...
>>
>> Oh, it is already 3:00am <SIGH>
>>
>> OK, Good morning all...
>>
>> Am 2008-07-10 09:31:32, schrieb Kathryn Marks:
>>     
>>> Morning all...
>>>       
>> :-)
>>
>>     
>>> [kathryn at Galaxy ~]$ mount -f -v /Vista
>>> mount: only root can do that
>>>       
>> As $USER you can not use "-f" (fake mount). I find this realy anoying.
>> For me it is a bug.
>>     
>
>
> Oh, well then doesn't that negate its usefulness as a debugging tool?
>
> OK.  Even if I drop the -f (why oh why can't it be used as a user???) I
> still can't mount the partition.
>
> [kathryn at Galaxy ~]$ mount /Vista
> mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /Vista
>
>
>   
In /etc/fstab add "user"  in the options. Then a user will be able to 
mount ;)



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