Thank you , David. My problem was a simple blunder, but your respose was
usefully informative.
On Sat, May 03, 2025 at 02:12:23PM +0000, David wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2025 at 11:09, Haines Brown <hai...@histomat.net> wrote:
> Now to assist you, here's an actual example cut and pasted from the machine
> I'm using right now.
>
> I have a USB key with vfat filesystem with label "SDS814XHD" as shown here:
>
> $ lsblk -f | grep SDS814XHD
> sdc vfat FAT16 SDS814XHD 843A-B464
>
> Here's 'grep' showing the relevant line in /etc/fstab that allows that
> particular key to be mounted by any user:
>
> $ grep SDS814XHD /etc/fstab
> LABEL=SDS814XHD /mp/sds814xhd vfat
> noauto,gid=share,dmask=7007,fmask=7117,shortname=winnt,quiet,user
>
> Note in that line the use of the 'user' option as described in 'man mount'.
>
> Here's what happens when a plain user 'david' mounts the USB key:
>
> $ whoami
> david
>
> $ mount -v LABEL=SDS814XHD
> mount: /dev/sdc mounted on /mp/sds814xhd.
>
> User david owns the files:
>
> $ ls -l /mp/sds814xhd
> total 32
> drwxrwx--- 3 david share 16384 1980-01-01 11:00 SDS814XHD
> drwxrwx--- 2 david share 16384 2024-11-15 19:25 SIGLENT
>
> $ umount -v LABEL=SDS814XHD
> umount: /mp/sds814xhd (/dev/sdc) unmounted
>
> I hope that example helps you to do what you need.
> If you reply, please make sure that your reply goes to the
> list, not to me. Thanks.
>
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Haines Brown
