I know this is a very newbie problem, but I've listened to several
threads, read several howto's, and searched DejaNews -- but I can't find
an answer.
It's this simple. I can mount my floppy but I can't write to it when
I'm not root. Someone suggested reading the security howto, but it
doesn't address this problem.
My fstab is:
/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda8 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb4 /mnt/zip vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/c vfat user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda3 /mnt/e vfat defaults,umask=0 0 0
and my /mnt directory looks like this:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 25 14:28 c
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Oct 9 1998 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 19 12:09 deervalley
drwxrwxrwx 20 root root 16384 Dec 31 1969 e
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 6 1996 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 May 14 11:57 parkwest
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Feb 8 16:50 snowbird
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 4 07:54 zip
If, as non root I mount `c', I can read/write all I want, and I become
the owner:
drwxrwxr-x 9 tom tom 16384 Dec 31 1969 c
But the same is not true for `floppy'. Would someone *please* tell me
what to read so I can understand this. It's really driving me crazy.
Thanks.
Tom