I am having a problem mounting my USB Thumb drive. If the drive is in USB port when I boot my laptop. Everything works as it should. I can right click on the Gnome desktop and it shows up as sda1 which will be mounted in /media/sda1 with my user id as the owner. However, If I boot my laptop then plug the thumb drive in, hot plug will recognize it and add the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab. But it does not show up when I right click on the desktop. I can manually mount it using this command. mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/cstuettg/mnt/usb The problem however, is that I have to su to mount it and then it shows up as owned by root, which means I can only read from it. I can not write to it or delete any files from it. Anyone know how I can mount the thumb drive after I have booted so my user account can have full access?
I am having a problem mounting my USB Thumb drive.
If the drive is in USB port when I boot my laptop. Everything works as it should. I can right click on the Gnome desktop and it shows up as sda1 which will be mounted in /media/sda1 with my user id as the owner.
However, If I boot my laptop then plug the thumb drive in, hot plug will recognize it and add the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab. But it does not show up when I right click on the desktop.
I can manually mount it using this command.
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/cstuettg/mnt/usb
The problem however, is that I have to su to mount it and then it shows up as owned by root, which means I can only read from it. I can not write to it or delete any files from it.
Anyone know how I can mount the thumb drive after I have booted so my user account can have full access? This is what is in fstab for my PCMCIA Sandisk... and I can r/w on it. Perhaps it'll help you get this figured out...? user,iocharset=iso8859-1,user=<user>,gid=users,umask=0002,code=437 0 0 -- ...CH "The more they over-think the plumbing,
On Sunday 11 July 2004 12:27, Chuck Stuettgen wrote: the easier it is to stop up the drain." Scotty
On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 14:31, C Hamel wrote:
On Sunday 11 July 2004 12:27, Chuck Stuettgen wrote:
I am having a problem mounting my USB Thumb drive.
If the drive is in USB port when I boot my laptop. Everything works as it should. I can right click on the Gnome desktop and it shows up as sda1 which will be mounted in /media/sda1 with my user id as the owner.
However, If I boot my laptop then plug the thumb drive in, hot plug will recognize it and add the appropriate entry in /etc/fstab. But it does not show up when I right click on the desktop.
I can manually mount it using this command.
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /home/cstuettg/mnt/usb
The problem however, is that I have to su to mount it and then it shows up as owned by root, which means I can only read from it. I can not write to it or delete any files from it.
Anyone know how I can mount the thumb drive after I have booted so my user account can have full access? This is what is in fstab for my PCMCIA Sandisk... and I can r/w on it. Perhaps it'll help you get this figured out...? user,iocharset=iso8859-1,user=<user>,gid=users,umask=0002,code=437 0 0
It turns out all I have to do is issue - mount /media/sda1- in a terminal window as my regular user and it will mount with my user account having full rights and an icon will appear on the Gnome Desktop. I don't know why the sda1 entry does not show up in the disks menu but it's not important now that I know how to mount it. Thanks anyway!
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