problems mounting a harddisk

[Dennis d'Entremont]

Joel,

Thanks. That's essentially what I ended up doing. I haven't restarted to
make sure that the auto mount works yet but I changed the permissions on the
folder I created.

Cheers!
Dennis

On 7/22/07, Joel Goguen <jtgoguen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I don't think his issue is with unmounting his root disk...
>
> To mount a drive, typically you do need to be root.  I haven't come
> across a situation where I could mount a disk as my regular user, but
> that doesn't mean there isn't one...
>
> What you can do is to add an entry in your fstab to auto mount on
> boot.  The first time this comes up, you'll probably need to change
> the ownership of the mount point.  For example, I have a drive mounted
> at /home/jgoguen/torrents/ and so I have an entry in my fstab for
> this.  The first time I rebooted after adding that, I needed to run
> this command:
>
> sudo chown -R jgoguen:jgoguen /home/jgoguen/torrents/
>
> and after that it automatically mounts at boot with my user/group
> ownership.
>
> On 7/22/07, Thomas McKay <tom.mckay1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > be sure to remember you cannot unmount the partition your system is
> > currently running from. reboot, and using a livecd try again, and i'm
> > certain you won't have any issues.
> >
> > On Sun, 2007-22-07 at 10:55 -0300, Dennis d'Entremont wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 (64Bit) and have installed a 40GB hard drive
> > > as a slave (cd rom is master) on my IDE channel. My main disk is a
> > > 250GB SATA drive.
> > >
> > > When I run GPARTED it get an error telling me I do not have permission
> > > to mount the drive. I ran gparted (sudo) and was able to get the drive
> > > formatted but it still wouldn't mount. I was finally able to get it to
> > > mount from the command line (with sudo) but for some reason I can't
> > > get it to mount when I'm running it as a regular user.
> > >
> > > Do I need to add an entry to the fstab file for this to work properly?
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Dennis
> > >
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