I don't have any experience with zip drives in Linux, but I suspect that
the "user" option in mount will let non-root users mount your zip
drive. Here's the entry for my cd-rom in /etc/fstab which allows all
users to mount cds:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user
0 0
Good luck,
Hidong
Ahbaid Gaffoor wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Well, firstly, linux is great!!
>
> I just deployed my own financials system with windows clients, and
> oracle 8 running on a linux server for database...
>
> first of it's kind in Guyana!
>
> Needless to say, this has really lowered the cost of ownership for my
> customer.
>
> Now, I have to backup some data from the database at specified times
> each day to a zip disk.
>
> It's an internal ide zip on hdc, I can mount and unmount it as root, but
> the backup user cannot do this.
>
> I need to know how do I allow other users to mount and unmount a device
> such as /dev/hdc4
>
> I thought of letting cron mount the disk and umount it an hour later,
> within this time the backup runs. The only disadvantage is that the disk
> is locked up for an hour.
>
> Is there an entry I can place in /etc/fstab to allow any user to mount
> and unmount the disk?
>
> Thanks folks,
>
> any help is welcome.
>
> regards,
>
> Ahbaid.
>
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