On 2014-03-30 16:24, jdd wrote:
Back to the "only root can do that" problem!
cer@Telcontar:~> mount /mnt/dvd cer@Telcontar:~> ls -l /mnt/dvd total 20636 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 13590883 Jul 7 2010 ARCHIVES.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 6123701 Jul 7 2010 ChangeLog -r--r--r-- 1 root root 17992 Jul 6 2010 GPLv2.txt -r--r--r-- 1 root root 35147 Jul 6 2010 GPLv3.txt -r--r--r-- 1 root root 79301 Jul 7 2010 INDEX.gz -r--r--r-- 1 root root 1002 Jul 6 2010 README -r--r--r-- 1 root root 2238 Jul 6 2010 SuSEgo.ico ... cer@Telcontar:~> eject /mnt/dvd cer@Telcontar:~> That's using the appropriate entry in fstab, but it also works using the tools in modern desktops. I like manual mounting instead. The files there are owned by root, because that is not a backup media. Another example: cer@Telcontar:~> mount /mnt/dvd cer@Telcontar:~> ls -l /mnt/dvd total 6 dr-xr-xr-x 10 root root 2048 Jan 19 2003 home dr-xr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 19 2003 rr_moved cer@Telcontar:~> ls -l /mnt/dvd/home/cer/ total 32564 -rw-r--r-- 1 cer_old users 1309 Dec 10 1998 #.bashrc# -rw-r--r-- 1 cer_old users 2046 May 2 2000 #fortune.txt# -rw------- 1 cer_old users 737 Mar 23 2001 #pico01635# -rw------- 1 cer_old users 1260 Aug 14 2002 #pico05457# -rw-r--r-- 1 cer_old users 870 Apr 5 2001 CALLEJERO.url -rw------- 1 cer_old users 2504 Jun 18 2001 DEADJOE ... cer@Telcontar:~> eject /mnt/dvd cer@Telcontar:~> See? no problem. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)