Comments on: Howto: Mounting without sudo

By: Roky

Roky — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 19:27:22 +0000

I was copying from pendrive to drive partition and suddenly system was hanged and i had to restart my system. when I click my partition: It has occurred an Error Message..
It is shown below:
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Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 13: $MFTMirr does not match $MFT (record 0).
Failed to mount ‘/dev/sda7′: Input/output error
NTFS is either inconsistent, or there is a hardware fault, or it’s a
SoftRAID/FakeRAID hardware. In the first case run chkdsk /f on Windows
then reboot into Windows twice. The usage of the /f parameter is very
important! If the device is a SoftRAID/FakeRAID then first activate
it and mount a different device under the /dev/mapper/ directory, (e.g.
/dev/mapper/nvidia_eahaabcc1). Please see the ‘dmraid’ documentation
for more details.
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I’ve tried Mount Manager but It didn’t work. Plz some1 is here to help and trouble shoot this problem.

Tell me
WELCOME
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By: desvinchado

desvinchado — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 22:34:48 +0000

YEAH!!! (snip) YEAH. sorry i’ve been trying to get this done over a week now. it’s my first openbox install (or no-gnome-ubuntu) and could not find the way to make pcman see my ntfs and ext3 music partition on start as my user. Thanks a lot!!!
Dual boot xp and ubuntu and a ext3 for my files.
ivman for automount.

ad this lines to fstab:
/dev/sda1 /media/disk-1 ntfs users 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/disk ext3 users 0 0

just take away the noauto option so they automount.
bye

By: Alexandru

Alexandru — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:06:51 +0000

To accomplish the same purpose, you can restructure the command so it looks like:

sudo mount -o uid=$USER,gid=$USER /dev/sda1 /mnt/point

This will make user and group ownership of the mount point belong to your username and not root.

By: Aleksey Zapparov A.K.A. iXTi

Aleksey Zapparov A.K.A. iXTi — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:19:14 +0000

Well, if you want to mount concrete usb flash-disk, you can do it without fstab tricks.

The probl;em in options, they are have to be (for vfat fs):
rw,users,noatime,uid=$UID,shortname=lower,codepage=866,utf8

so the sudo mount command should looks like:
sudo mount /DEVICE_NODE /MOUNT_POINT -o rw,users,noatime,uid=$UID,shortname=lower,codepage=866,utf8

I’m too lazy to type all this s*** all the time I insert my usb flashdisk, so here’s my solution:
$ mkdir -p ~/bin && cd ~/bin
$ touch mnt-myflashdisk && chmod 777 mnt-myflashdisk
$ echo “sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt -o rw,users,noatime,uid=$UID,shortname=lower,codepage=866,utf8″ > mnt-myflashdisk
$ touch umnt-myflashdisk && chmod 777 umnt-myflashdisk
$ echo “sudo umount /dev/sdb” > umnt-myflashdisk

so now, when I’m inserting my bsdstyle-partitioned vfat usb flashdisk i just type mnt-myflashdisk and that’s all

By: zariuq

zariuq — Sun, 06 May 2007 00:33:05 +0000

/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat users,noauto 0 0

is what you say to change the fstab thing to… but that is annoying as I like the auto thing…

I looked at my fstab file and noticed that I had something where the noauto was that was not noauto, umask=000 (do the 0′- represent groups, users and stuff?? because group 0 on my computer is root)

so I just changed the noauto to that…

/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk vfat users,umask=000 0 0

would this work to have it available to users and have it auto done?
(it probably isn’t, because I am a lame newbie… but I am hopefull)

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:04:36 +0000

John – I actually haven’t noticed that. I stopped using the default Kubuntu version of Firefox when it became outdated. Now I use the 2.0.0.1 binary from the firefox website with the generic gtk file chooser which of course doesn’t “see” some KDE specific paths.

It is a little annoying since the file chooser is so different but you get used to it after a while.

Still, I can mount a drive by clicking on it it and then point my FF to the mountpoint manually when I want to save to it

By: John

John — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 16:13:38 +0000

Luke: true, but sometimes KDE expects applications to be able to understand its terms.

For example, in Firefox, if I try to save a file to a removable drive using the KDE file selector, the file selector tries to pass media://sdb1/path to Firefox, which it rejects. If KDE used a normal path, this problem wouldn’t exist.

But overall I agree with you. I’m just starting to look at DCOP – commandline control of KDE’s programs seems very interesting.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:55:28 +0000

mtz – I don’t think you are supposed to edit mtab. I was under impression that it is automatically updated when you use the mount command.

K.Mandla – I’m the other way – I live in a KDE world, and rarely peak out to the Gnome side. At the moment the KDE support in Kubuntu (Dapper) is decent, but a little less polished than the Ubuntu’s Gnome. But there was a big improvement from Hoary to Dapper. Hopefully Edgy and Feisty will continue this trend of getting better ant running KDE.

Whenever I’m working in Gnome I instantly miss things like one click mounting or the fish:// protocol which lets me to access files on remote machines via scp, smb, sftp or whatever just as if they were local files (ie. I can open them with any KDE based application, modify, save and close while KDE will automatically cache my changes locally, and then upload them via network).

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:33:12 +0000

Thanks, Luke. This was definitely one of those things I had to work out for myself. It seemed almost counterintuitive, but I got it in the end.

I wasn’t aware KDE handled mountpoints so easily. I’ll have to get over my aversion to it and see what good stuff is on that side of the fence. Cheers!

By: mtz

mtz — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:32:23 +0000

to go around most of your “problems”, you might want to pass a couple or arguments to the mount command ..user=me, will give you default ownership of the files, rw, will give you read-write access to the drive, nouid will tell your system not to mind file/folder owhership. i also believe an option -n will allow you to mount without requiring root privileges.

you should read mount options, it will solve a lot of your “problems”

/etc/mtab “manages” removable devices that are plugged in when the system is already up(fstab is used when the system is booting up)