How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
user?
If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
but the device is not mounted. As root the same command mounts the
device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
Here's what I've got. What else do I need to do?
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 (brewbuilder@hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13)) #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 15:12:59 EST 2007
$ ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 1 23:58 /dev/sda
brw-rw-rw- 1 cwsulliv disk 8, 1 Apr 2 00:10 /dev/sda1
Thanks for your help.
Regards,
Charles Sullivan
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04-02-2008, 10:26 AM
Ian Malone
FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.
Charles Sullivan wrote:
How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
user?
If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
but the device is not mounted. As root the same command mounts the
device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
Here's what I've got. What else do I need to do?
Try the ntfs-config package. This will give you an 'NTFS configuration
tool' (in applications|system tools in FC6), which should make setting
this up easier. There is one possible problem with your fstab, but I'm
not convinced that's what's wrong.
$ ls -l /bin/ntfs-3g
-rwsrwxrwx 1 root root 39052 Nov 8 13:59 /bin/ntfs-3g
I'd note that here, and below, this file should not be world writeable
(the only things in /bin that should be are links).
In /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 /simple ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,umask=0 0 0
I can't see anything obviously wrong with these options. Except that
there's no uid specified. The following is what I've got:
I've had a go at setting the users option and see the same behaviour as
you on FC6 (silent failure to mount). I don't know if this is fixed in
later versions.
Is this what it looks like with the device mounted or without? The
mount point directory does not actually need these permissions, as they
are over-ridden by the mounted filesystem.
$ ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 1 23:58 /dev/sda
brw-rw-rw- 1 cwsulliv disk 8, 1 Apr 2 00:10 /dev/sda1
Again, these are too permissive, should be 'brw-r-----', have you
changed them?
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04-02-2008, 01:16 PM
"max bianco"
FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.
On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv@triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
> How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
> user?
>
> If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
> but the device is not mounted. As root the same command mounts the
> device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
>
Thats because by default only root can use the mount command. So the
question is which group can you add yourself too that has that
permission? or is it simply a matter of the command not being in the
users path? I am running F8 not FC6 so others can maybe provide better
responses but i don't believe that the solution is more complex than
that.
Max
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04-02-2008, 01:41 PM
"Patrick O'Callaghan"
FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 09:16 -0400, max bianco wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 1:50 AM, Charles Sullivan <cwsulliv@triad.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
> > user?
> >
> > If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
> > but the device is not mounted. As root the same command mounts the
> > device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
> >
> Thats because by default only root can use the mount command. So the
> question is which group can you add yourself too that has that
> permission? or is it simply a matter of the command not being in the
> users path? I am running F8 not FC6 so others can maybe provide better
> responses but i don't believe that the solution is more complex than
> that.
If it was just a permissions problem, 'mount' would give an error
message. Likewise if it wasn't in the user's path (it's possible though
unlikely that $PATH gets him a different version of 'mount'; using
'/bin/mount' would get round that).
poc
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04-02-2008, 01:56 PM
TNWestTex
FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.
Charles Sullivan-2 wrote:
>
>
> How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
> user?
>
> If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
> but the device is not mounted. As root the same command mounts the
> device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
>
> Here's what I've got. What else do I need to do?
>
> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 (brewbuilder@hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com)
> (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13)) #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 15:12:59
> EST 2007
>
> $ rpm -q ntfs-3g fuse
> ntfs-3g-1.1104-1.fc6
> fuse-2.7.0-6.fc6
>
> $ ls -l /bin/ntfs-3g
> -rwsrwxrwx 1 root root 39052 Nov 8 13:59 /bin/ntfs-3g
>
> In /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sda1 /simple ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,umask=0 0 0
>
> $ ls -dl /simple
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 1 23:18 /simple
>
> $ ls -l /dev/sd*
> brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 1 23:58 /dev/sda
> brw-rw-rw- 1 cwsulliv disk 8, 1 Apr 2 00:10 /dev/sda1
>
>
An earlier thread gave this note. With setup in /etc/fstab
mount by normal user is not recommended.
If you insist on that, here are the steps:
While it is on my list of todos I haven't actually tried this yet. Also it
may require more recent versions of ntfs-3g than you have for fc6.
Robert McBroom
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TNWestTex
FC6 mount ntfs-3g problem.
Charles Sullivan-2 wrote:
>
>
> How can I mount a USB external drive (SimpleTech 320 GB) as a normal
> user?
>
> If as a normal user I run 'mount /[mount_point]', there's no error message
> but the device is not mounted. As root the same command mounts the
> device and I am thereafter able to read and write to it as a normal user.
>
> Here's what I've got. What else do I need to do?
>
> $ cat /proc/version
> Linux version 2.6.22.14-72.fc6 (brewbuilder@hs20-bc1-6.build.redhat.com)
> (gcc version 4.1.2 20070626 (Red Hat 4.1.2-13)) #1 SMP Wed Nov 21 15:12:59
> EST 2007
>
> $ rpm -q ntfs-3g fuse
> ntfs-3g-1.1104-1.fc6
> fuse-2.7.0-6.fc6
>
> $ ls -l /bin/ntfs-3g
> -rwsrwxrwx 1 root root 39052 Nov 8 13:59 /bin/ntfs-3g
>
> In /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sda1 /simple ntfs-3g noauto,users,rw,umask=0 0 0
>
> $ ls -dl /simple
> drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Apr 1 23:18 /simple
>
> $ ls -l /dev/sd*
> brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 8, 0 Apr 1 23:58 /dev/sda
> brw-rw-rw- 1 cwsulliv disk 8, 1 Apr 2 00:10 /dev/sda1
>
>
An earlier thread gave this note.
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mount by normal user is not recommended.
If you insist on that, here are the steps:
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged
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While it is on my list of todos I haven't actually tried this yet. Also it
may require more recent versions of ntfs-3g than you have for fc6.
Robert McBroom
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