Re: [vox-tech] Jumpdrive on Knoppix

[Jonathan Stickel <jjstickel@sbcglMAPSobal.net>]

OK.  On a harddrive install where I have root privileges, I edit the 
fstab.  Here is a line for my usb compactflash reader:

/dev/sda1  /mnt/flash   auto     noauto,users     0 0

The "users" flag means that when it gets mounted, the entire filesystem 
is owned by the user that mounted it[1].

Another option is to pass "uid=username" option when mounting a vfat 
filesystem.  This will also make the entire filesystem owned by "username".

I'm curious:  if your wife is interested enough in Linux to use Knoppix 
for work tasks, why not dual boot her computer?

Jonathan

[1]
I now use autofs for mounting/unmounting my detachable devices.


Richard Harke wrote:
> Yes, it is USB. I used vfat as the type when I mounted and that
> worked well. The main problem was that I couldn't do a chown
> on it. If I get something that works, I could modify the iso image
> before burning another CD.
>
> Richard
>
> On Sunday 26 September 2004 20:29, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
>
> > Is this "jumpdrive" some usb device in some FAT format?  If so, there
> > are ways to do what you want, but none of them would be remembered after
> > rebooting Knoppix.
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
> > Richard Harke wrote:
> >
> > > I spent some time today helping my wife with Knoppix.
> > > She has a lot of experience with Windows but tends
> > > to be baffled by command line programs. She would like
> > > to be able to use the jumpdrive under knoppix leaving
> > > the hard drive out of the picture (or at least remaining
> > > read-only) When we plugged in the jump drive, it was
> > > recognized, the drivers were loaded and a drive assigned
> > > (/dev/sda1) However it wasn't mounted. After mounting,
> > > it was still a problem because it belonged to root. I tried
> > > to do a chown (as root) but kept getting operation not
> > > permitted messages. The best I was able to do was copy
> > > files, as root, between the jumpdrive and /home/knoppix
> > > So, the question is, how can I change the ownership?
> > > And then how can I have this happen automatically
> > > when I plug in the jumpdrive?
> > > Ideally, when I plug it in, it would be mounted to a
> > > sub-directory of /home/knoppix with the permissions
> > > set for the user knoppix
> > >
> > > Richard Harke
> > >
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