[oclug] Mount drive on USB port

Andy Civil andycivil at gmail.com
Sun Nov 19 15:11:22 EST 2006


Hi

I've got one of those hot pluggable hard drive enclosures, and if I plug 
it in to my USB port, I can see it as /dev/sda and make a partition as 
/dev/sda1. So far so good, but when I mount it, I need to sudo the mount 
command, and then it ends up owned by root, whereupon I can't see it as 
a user.

I could cheat, and put an entry in my fstab and say "user", but that 
doesn't seem right to put a permanent entry for a temporary mount. 
What's the neat way to do it?

(I made a FAT32/vfat partition, by the way, because I'll probably want 
to use it on windoze machines, too.)

Using Ubuntu Dapper.

Thanks

-- 
Andy



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