Linux & External Maxtor One Touch II 300 GB Hard D

nceballo · #1 10-29-2005, 01:36 AM

It dosen't matter what version of Linux use :dry: I just can not enable the drive to be used by a non SU! I have tried mounting it and unmounting it either USB or Firewire it will not work. I have Google to death and I can not find the solution? Any thought anyone?

nceballo · #2 10-29-2005, 01:58 AM

Wow it works using FAT file system! That was my last option but isn't FAT limited? Well the good thing is that I am able to use it as a regular user for now. I wonder why ext2fs,ext3fs and Reiser don't work. It must be a permissions problem. Any thoughts anyone?

Valour · #3 10-29-2005, 02:20 AM

What is this drive's entry in /etc/fstab? If you want it to be user-mountable, you have to add the user option to the OPTS column.

-Jem

nceballo · #4 10-29-2005, 10:48 AM

This is what fstab shows:

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdb2 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda3 /local reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 /opt reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda2 /srv reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda3 /tmp reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hdb1 /usr reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hdb2 /var reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocha rset=utf8 0 0
/dev/sdc4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0

As you can see it is not even in there. When I click on the drive in kde it shows up as:

media:/sdc1

Also the baloon that pops up in Suse has the following info:

Mounted Removable Media
Base URL: file:///media/ieee1394disk
/dev/sdc1

I noticed that sdc & sdc1 in not in the fstab file. I am still trying to figure this out.

Valour · #5 10-29-2005, 12:46 PM

Go ahead and creat an fstab entry for it, and make sure you set the noauto option so that the init doesn't hang when the drive isn't connected. I don't know if that would totally screw init or if it would just be like with a CDROM and pause for a while trying to determine if there is a disc to mount or not.

-Jem

nceballo · #6 11-01-2005, 08:23 PM

What would the entry be? Could you write down an example?

Valour · #7 11-01-2005, 08:53 PM

[code:1]/dev/sdb2 /mnt/usb_drive ext3 noauto,user 0 0[/code:1]

That assumes that your filesystem on the external drive is ext3. Change the ext3 setting to whatever your drive's filesystem is.

-Jem