[2472] in Release_7.7_team
Re: mounting ZIP drives under linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Mon Nov 6 12:21:33 2000
Message-Id: <200011061721.MAA20621@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>, amb@MIT.EDU
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Message from Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
received Fri, 03 Nov 2000 19:36:33 -0500
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 12:21:07 -0500
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
>Doesn't the "user" option in fstab allow a non-root user to mount the
>filesystem?
Looks like /etc/fstab doesn't currently have entries for any removable
media. This reminds me that someone wrote in to suggest[2180] a while
back asking about an fstab entry for cdrom and automounting, which I
don't see answered.
As far as mmount, it's not clear to me how useful it is (mtools doesn't
seem to provide umount, and mmount doesn't seem to pass options as
advertised), but in any case adding the following to /etc/fstab lets me
mount non-root:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zip msdos user,noauto 0 0
That's with mount or mmount, no options; if we do want to add an entry
for zip disks, note that /dev/sda4 only covers the usual dos-formatted
zip disk partition variety; the others are /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda, for
1 or none respectively...
--Abby
