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Old 08-19-2006
How to mount disk for non-root accounts?
Presently I have mounted a disk as su. I believe only root can mount disks -- is this correct?

I had to run mozilla in the root account so I can download the new SuSE distribution to the new disk.

How can I mount the disk so non-root accounts can access the disk?
Thanks,
Siegfried
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Old 08-20-2006
It is a bit unclear as to what exactly you want to do. Do you want the disk to be mounted at boot time? Or do you want any user to be able to mount the disk as and when they need it?

Now assuming that you are using Linux, for the first, make the necessary entries in the /etc/fstab file. For the second, use the '-o' switch with the 'user' or the 'users' options. Check the man page for details.
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Old 08-24-2006
Super users root file system tree can't be visible to non super users. For the visibility of the mounted file system tree to the non super users ,it has to be mounted to their own file system tree.
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Old 08-24-2006
how to mount disk
how to mount disk on on new drive?
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Old 08-28-2006
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Originally Posted by pankaj001np
how to mount disk on on new drive?
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