[PLUG] Recognizing Portable Music Player

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Mon Feb 25 01:23:03 UTC 2008


On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Paul Mullen wrote:

> The 'user' option allows regular users to mount and unmount file systems.
> If a file system was mounted by root, it's likely that it won't be
> accessible to regular users (depending on the permissions set).

   That's very true. If mounted by root it's not writable by a user. However,
after root adds the device to /etc/fstab, I thought that a user could
immediately mount the device. It did not work then. Now it does; I can mount
the device as a user.

Rich

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