[PLUG] Mount Question
Geoff Burling
llywrch at agora.rdrop.com
Thu Aug 28 06:17:02 UTC 2003
On 27 Aug 2003, Robbert van Andel wrote:
> When I try to mount my firewire drive I get the following error
> mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/firedrive
>
> I don't have any trouble mounting my zip drive.
>
> Here is the contents of /etc/fstab
>
> LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults
> 1 1
> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults
> 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
> 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/hdb2 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip auto
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/firedrive vfat
> noauto,owner,kuzu 0 0
>
Sorry to take so long in responding; we're all too busy arguing
over women & jobs here. ;-)
If this is an *exact* transcription of your /etc/fstab file, I suspect
part of the trouble is that you've misspelled ``kudzu" on that line. I'd
also doublecheck the spelling of your mountpoint: you've called it
both ``firewire" & ``firedrive" in this email.
Otherwise, based at my own /etc/fstab file, try changing ``owner" to
``users". That's solved the problem for me in the past. And make sure
that the mountpoint has the correct permissions & ownerships.
Geoff
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