[buug] mount?

Ian Zimmerman itz at speakeasy.org
Mon Dec 16 13:56:47 PST 2002


Karshi> Hi all, What I need to do in order to be able to mount the
Karshi> cdrom (/cdrom) as a user?

What system?

On Linux, 

1. give yourself sufficient permissions on the /cdrom directory (most
   convenient is to include yourself in a a group, say "cdrom", and
   then chgrp cdrom /cdrom)

2. in /etc/fstab, give "user" as one of the options, for example
   here's my fstab:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system>	<mount point>		<type>		<options>	<dump>	<pass>
/dev/hdc1	/			ext2		defaults	0	1
/dev/hda1	swap			swap		defaults	0	0
/dev/hda2	/boot			ext2		ro		0	2
/dev/hda4	/var/tmp/amanda		ext2		defaults	0	2
proc		/proc			proc		defaults	0	0
tmpfs		/tmp			tmpfs		defaults	0	0
/dev/sr0	/cdrom			iso9660		user,noauto,ro,nodev,nosuid	0	0

An alternative way which I went for a while just because it was cool
is to use the automounter.  Right now I am in my "simplicity" period,
so I don't do that anymore.  If you're interested google for "Linux
autofs".

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