Re: FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.

2008/4/2 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
max bianco wrote:


On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 9:41 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan



If it was just a permissions problem, 'mount' would give an error
message. Likewise if it wasn't in the user's path (it's possible though
unlikely that $PATH gets him a different version of 'mount'; using
'/bin/mount' would get round that).

poc


He is saying that mount works as root and not a regular user but once
its mounted it works for the user, usually that is a permissions
issue. I know F8 you get an error message but he is on FC6.

Max


I thought that it was listed in fstab with the user(s) option, the way his
is, that the mount command was run as root, as long as you ran "mount <mount
point>" or "mount <device>". On the other hand, using the format "mount
<device> <mount point>" requires root permissions. But I have not used
entries in /fstab for removable devices for a while - I use HAL instead.


I am not sure what his fstab should look like but as far as using the
mount command I have always found that you have to be root or have
permission explicitly granted. I plug in my external drive and it just
automounts for me, i don't remember doing anything special to get this
to work, but apparently this was not the case in FC6, i have never
used FC6. Hopefully he will let us know what happened.

Max

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