On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > lshal).
I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. > You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then mount > under /media/sdb1 with read-write privileges for the user that mounted > the drive. If you want a user to be able to read-write with a > root-mount, make sure you state the proper rights in the fstab-entry. > Make a group that is allowed to read-write to the device, and add > /dev/sdb1 /media/usb auto rw,users,noauto,gid=xxx,umask=007 0 0 > with xxx replaced by the id of that group (or give system wide > read-write privileges by stating umask=000) > As fat doesn't support a proper security-model, you have to specify that > yourself. Else only root can read. > Good luck! Thanks, I did not know about pmount. I'll remove the fstab entry and use pmount from now on. I'd still like to get HAL mounting this disk. I installed and maintain a dozen or so friends' ubuntu, and if they ever come across this I'd like to have a solution ready. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
