deletion of /dev files

[R Kimber]

On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 09:37:48 +1100
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 21:56:47 +0000
> R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 
> > > When invoking mount in your script, use 'mount -t ext2 /dev/sda4  
> > > <destination>'.
> > 
> > Yes but
> > 
> > ~/>mount -t ext2 /dev/sda4 /media/zip
> > mount: only root can do that
> 
> Isn't this what the pmount command is for? From man pmount:
> 
>  pmount - mount arbitrary hotpluggable devices as normal user

Ah.  Thanks.  I'd never heard of pmount.  I'll experiment with it.

-- 
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/