Mounting USB memory stick problem

Chris Norman cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk
Mon Feb 26 16:46:31 EST 2007


All the removable media options are set up right, what sort of thing
should I have in /etc/fstab? Currently, I have:
/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk auto defaults 0 0

Cheers,

On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:19 +0000, Michael Whapples wrote:
> Check that all the auto mount options for gnome are set correctly. You can 
> find these in the system, preferences menu under the item Removable drives 
> and media.
> 
> If that fails, then set up your fstab file, and then you should be able to 
> mount it with just the command (or similar) "mount /media/usbdisk", as the 
> normal user.
> 
> From
> Michael Whapples
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chris Norman" <cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 3:53 PM
> Subject: Mounting USB memory stick problem
> 
> 
> > Hi people,
> > My subject line isn't really accurate, there is no problem in doing it,
> > it just doesn't happen when I want it to.
> >
> > There was a time (under gnome, ubuntu 6.10), when I could put a memory
> > stick in the bus and it would just mount, now I have to mount it as
> > root, and any attempts to do it from my normal user under the GUI
> > complains.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -- 
> >
> > Chris Norman.
> > <!-- cnorman at rnibncw.ac.uk -->
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
> 
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