Assuming you do not have any other usb devices hooked up to your laptop,
adding the following line to your /etc/fstab will allow you to mount and
use your pen drive as a non-root user:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat user,noauto,exec 0 0
Using this method, you will have to type "mount /mnt/sda1" when you insert
it and "umount /mnt/sda1" when you are done.
I cannot stress how important it is to unmount! Failure to do so will
either leave your pen drive without the changes you made or with data
corruption (I know this from experience)
If anybody knows of a way for linux to mount automatically do this I am
all ears (switching the noauto parameter to auto doesn't do the trick).
Sincerely,
Ryan Caron
> Message: 7
> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 09:55:05 -0400
> From: Walt Sawyer <wsawyer(a)norfolk-county.com>
> Subject: [Wlug] mountng a pen drive (usb)
> To: Worcester Linux Users Group <wlug(a)mail.wlug.org>
> Message-ID: <1097762105.2591.9.camel(a)localhost.localdomain>
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>
> How do I get my SanDisk cruzer mini 256 mb pen drive to mount on my
> Fedora Core 2 laptop?
> Thanks in advance
> Walt
