Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:16:54 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder Message-ID: <45B5B666.5030801@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070123063048.GA728@powerfull.bsd> References: <922655.25365.qm@web35313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <45B3F6CE.3060402@netscape.net> <20070122010355.GA1544@powerfull.bsd> <45B59227.3010204@u.washington.edu> <20070123063048.GA728@powerfull.bsd>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ajm wrote: > On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 08:42:15PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > ajm wrote: >>>> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote: >>>>> Andrew Gould wrote: >>>>>> [snip] >>>> this is from a previous message in the thread: >>>>> attempt: mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310 >>>> try as root or su to root >>>> >>>> # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310 > Interestingly enough I tried out these steps as root to see if I could > resimulate this with my camera and I ended up with the same results. > Only by trying to mount the camera as root could I succeed. > > Does anyone have a FAT16/FAT32 drive properly mounting under FreeBSD as > a non-root user? If so, did you modify /dev, /etc/devfs.conf, or are you > using amd(8)? > > -Garrett > Take a look at sudoers(5) and visudo(8) > I use sudo to mount my mass storage compliant devices with the > following command as regular user: > for my mp3 player > [ajm@bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/mp3player > for my camera > [ajm@bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/kodak > for a memory card reader > [ajm@bsd]$ sudo mount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 /usr/home/ajm/mnt/card_reader > Just make sure you change the ? to an actual device number. > You do need to create the /mnt directories in your own home directory > so that you can read and write to those devices as a regular user. > Also use sudo to un mount the device: > [ajm@bsd]$ sudo umount_msdosfs /dev/da?s1 > NOTE: I did not change anything in the /etc/devfs.conf or am I using > amd(8). That's not an absolute solution though, because it should work as a regular user (maybe with a bit of fenaggling). Besides, installing sudo is a security risk anyhow.. - -Garrett -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFtbZmEnKyINQw/HARAjMJAJwPrVm8VI64gdwBwtDOrDmxO+Cv4gCfQzXT eudjUIzKZtXf9g3khIaK84k= =oY+M -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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