deletion of /dev files
R Kimber
rkimber at ntlworld.com
Mon Jan 16 14:00:28 UTC 2006
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/
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