Hi, On 10/12/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/12/2007 05:03 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > P Kapat wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have been banging my head for quite a few hours now. Can't I mount a > >> fixed (internal SATA) drive with write access as a normal user? Here > >> is the relevant line from fstab: > >> > >> /dev/sdb1 /media/backup ext3 user,noauto,rw 0 0 > >> > >> $ ls -l /media/backup > >> drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 03:12 /media/backup > >> > >> $ mount /dev/sdb1 > >> $ ls -l /media/backup > >> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 03:12 /media/backup > >> > >> Why am I loosing the write access?? > >> > > > > Maybe, it's because the directory /media/backup is owned by root? > > In order to allow mounting for normal users, I suggest the package pmount. > > He only needs to change the permissions on /media/backup *after* he's > mounted the partition.
Thanks. I should go and kill myself! -- Regards PK -------------------------------------- http://counter.li.org #402424
