[vox-tech] Jumpdrive on Knoppix

[Jonathan Stickel]

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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