Re: [SLE] USB Thumb drive in 9.0

From: C Hamel (vgm2_at_sc2000.net)
Date: 07/11/04

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Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 14:31:59 -0500

    On Sunday 11 July 2004 12:27, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
    > I am having a problem mounting my USB Thumb drive.
    >
    > If the drive is in USB port when I boot my laptop. Everything works as
    > it should. I can right click on the Gnome desktop and it shows up as
    > sda1 which will be mounted in /media/sda1 with my user id as the owner.
    >
    > However, If I boot my laptop then plug the thumb drive in, hot plug will
    > recognize it and add the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab. But it does
    > not show up when I right click on the desktop.
    >
    > I can manually mount it using this command.
    >
    > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/cstuettg/mnt/usb
    >
    > The problem however, is that I have to su to mount it and then it shows
    > up as owned by root, which means I can only read from it. I can not
    > write to it or delete any files from it.
    >
    > Anyone know how I can mount the thumb drive after I have booted so my
    > user account can have full access?
    This is what is in fstab for my PCMCIA Sandisk... and I can r/w on it.
    Perhaps it'll help you get this figured out...?
           user,iocharset=iso8859-1,user=<user>,gid=users,umask=0002,code=437 0 0 

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