On Sat, 6 May 2000, Prasanna Krishnan wrote: pk> I am unable to mount the floppy drive (/dev/fd0) to /floppy as a regular pk> user. In /etc/fstab, I have this line: pk> /dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,owner 0 pk> 0 Change the noauto,owner to noauto,user the previous requires you to be the owner of the file/device, in this case /dev/fd0 which is owned by root. It's a synonym to the nouser option, see man 8 mount nouser Forbid an ordinary (i.e., non-root) user to mount the file system. This is the default. <snip from manpage> The owner option is similar to the user option, with the restriction that the user must be the owner of the special file. <end snip> pk> I have added myself to the group 'disk'. I have made the /floppy folder pk> rewriteable by group disk. However, when I type 'mount /floppy' or pk> 'mount /dev/fd0' as a regular user, I get an error saying 'mount: must pk> be superuser to mount'. How can I fix this? Thanks. pk> pk> pk> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - www.primenet.com/~tomas SuSE Linux v6.3+ - Kernel 2.2.14 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/