Mounting a USB Zip drive

[Florian Diesch]

David Abrahams <dave at boost-consulting.com> wrote:

> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> writes:
>
>> R Kimber wrote:
>>
>>> I have a zip drive that mounts OK and I can read it, but I have no
>>> write permission.  It gets mounted as:-
>>> 
>>> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  4096 2006-08-27 18:37 zip
>>> 
>>> How do I change things so that I can write to this disk?
>>
>> Put the user into the plugdev group...
>>
>>> <grumble>
>>> In the Good Old Days, all I had to do was put an entry into
>>> fstab.  Now we have the ghastly and unfriendly udev
>>> </grumble>
>>
>> I beg to differ.  udev is no less friendly than fstab - more
>> complicated 
>
> Isn't 
>
>       more complicated == less friendly
>
> a nearly universal truth of computer software?

Quite a lot people today think a complicated GUI like Gnome or KDE is
more friendly than a simple serial console.



   Florian
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