Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:13:52 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "Operation not permitted" when mounting floppy or cdrom
Message-ID:  <45D77010.5090003@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <a558ebe30702171211r749f2e8cv7869b8d1501cf58b@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a558ebe30702171211r749f2e8cv7869b8d1501cf58b@mail.gmail.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
lysergius2001 wrote:
> FreeBSD 6.2.  Recently installed will not permit user mount of floppy disk,
> cdrom, or usb.  Works fine as root.  Checked devfs.conf, devfs.rules, 
> fstab,
> /dev.  Nothing seems to make a difference.
> 
> Any ideas welcomed...
> 
> Thanks

You don't have access to the /dev nodes. Make sure that your user has 
the ability to mount.

Make sure that this sysctl is also set to 1:

vfs.usermount: 1

If that doesn't work, then we'll have to get more info about the devices 
you're trying to mount (ls -l), what groups you're in, etc.
-Garrett



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?45D77010.5090003>