[CentOS] umount'ing a /media/disk... as a user
Charles E Campbell Jr
charles.e.campbell at nasa.gov
Tue Oct 16 16:21:24 UTC 2007
Lukasz wrote:
>
> Charles E Campbell Jr pisze:
>
>> Currently, whenever I attempt to umount /media/disk (or -1, etc), I
>> either have to be user or have to have given the account sudo
>> privileges. Since these "disks" are usually just flash-memory
>> sticks, I'd really rather have the permission to umount them be given
>> to users. The /etc/mtab shows the /media filesystems, /etc/fstab
>> does not.
>
>
> You may add those devices to fstab, much like partitions:
>
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive vfat noauto,users,rw,umask=0000 0 0
> /dev/sda2 /mnt/pendrive2 vfat noauto,users,rw,umask=0000 0 0
>
> the key is that "users" param, to allow normal users mount and umount
> filesystem; I very often use static mount points and edit fstab
> instead of using HAL for this, but HAL itself respects fstab
> configuration too
>
> all parameters are listed in mount docs, but since those are removable
> media, security isn't very important
>
Thank you!
I'll try this approach out...
Regards,
Chip Campbell
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