Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 04:39:46 +0000 From: B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't Mount USB Drive As User Under FreeBSD 10 Message-ID: <CAP7QzkPx8Q1V8U1wAdBGZkDu-d94wPBZtfYV-R7XHewyCi_SmQ@mail.gmail.com>
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I searched the mailing list archives for an answer to my problem but didn't find anything. I recently installed FreeBSD 10 on a T42 Thinkpad. The configuration uses Gnome as the desktop. I've had problems configuring the machine to mount external USB drives. I can mount USB thumb drives when logged in as root using: mount -t msdosfs -o -m=644,-M=755 /dev/da0s1 /mnt/root after creating the directory /mnt/root. It appears that external USB hard drives will automatically mount on the desktop while I'm operating as root as well. If I try the "mount -t msdosfs" command for a USB thumb drive while running as a user, I get an "operation not permitted" error. External hard drives won't mount at all. I followed the steps given in section 18.5 of the handbook and I even modified: /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf in accordance with Step 2, Section 3 of: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3 Nothing seems to work. What did I do wrong? Did I miss something? Please advise. Thank you. B. M. Jatzeck
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