[Discuss] Mounting USB drives

[John Blomfield]

Thanks brendan, I will try that.

On 2017-08-15 11:49 AM, brendan wrote:
> you can specify in fstab that a non-root user is able to mount/unmount a
> device. see the "non-superuser mounts" section in the mount manpage:
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mount.8.html
>
> additionally, the "noauto" option will stop it from trying to mount the
> usb drive at boot.
>
>
> On 2017-08-15 10:14 AM, John Blomfield wrote:
>> Hi Ron,
>> Yes, and this would mount the USB drive at boot time if it's plugged
>> in but if it's not plugged in boot tends to hang.
>> I want to plug in the USB drive after boot is complete and mounting
>> requires root.
>>
>> John
>>
>> On 2017-08-15 09:53 AM, Ron De Beck wrote:
>>> Hi John,
>>>      Probably a dumb question.
>>> Is there a setting that can be
>>> added to fstab line for the device
>>> using a specific UUID?
>>>
>
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