[Discuss] Mounting USB drives

[John Blomfield]

Hmm! putting
UUID=07087C1B775D68E6   /mnt/weekly-bkup ntfs-3g 
uid=john,gid=john,user,umask=000,utf8,noauto 0 0

in the fstab file causes KDE to mount it when I click it's popup "open 
in File Manager". However if I try to do the same thing in my program or 
in a terminal I get:

[john at ban ~]$ mount /mnt/weekly-bkup
Error opening '/dev/sdc1': Permission denied
Failed to mount '/dev/sdc1': Permission denied
Please check '/dev/sdc1' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions,
and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at
http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged

I don't understand the explanation given in tuxera, sounds like a ntfs 
problem.

However, clicking the KDE popup gives me what I want now, which is to 
mount the USB drive on /mnt/weekly-bkup! And I don't need to run mount 
in my program.

John


On 2017-08-15 12:25 PM, John Blomfield wrote:
> 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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