Supermounter

blamothe · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2003 6:21 am Post subject: Supermounter

Ok, I am new to the whole supermounter idea, i usually just mount my discs by hand. I want to supermount a usb memory stick and my cdrom drive, and have them accesible to all users, so which lines should i add to fstab? thanks.

mlynx · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 27

Here are the lines from my fstab for my cd, floppy, and usb camera

rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

if you want supermount to work for regular users, you'll need to add ",users" after the "--" ("--" passes appropriate mount commands to the kernel when mounting media)
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blamothe · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2003 4:40 am Post subject:

thanks for the help, but i still can't create directories or modify the contents of the diskonkey, even though i added the users option. this is the relevant part of my fstab:

rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

I seriously doubt that your usb-diskonkey uses an ext3 partition. Usually they use something a little more esoteric. Read the help menu on available file systems in the linux kernel to see if you can find something else to use. That might help.
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blamothe · Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2003 6:23 am Post subject:

i am positive that it uses an ext3 partition, because i put it on it. it was using a fat12 at first, and i formated that partition with fdisk first, without defining a filesystem, then i just did

rajl · Apprentice Joined: 25 Sep 2002 Posts: 287

doing the "--,users" should make it supermountable by regular users. what are the device permissions on the device? what groups are your regular users a part of?
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blamothe · Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:05 am Post subject:

ok, i am not sure how to check which group my regular users are a part of, but i made sure by adding him to both wheel and users with usermod -G. I am also not sure how to check my device permissions either, i went to /dev/sda1, but it gave me -r-xr-xr-x, but i don't know if those were the device settings. I did, chmod 777 /dev/sda1, and there were no errors, but i ckecked the permissions for /dev/sda1, but nothing changed, so i don't know what the deal is, and i still can't get my normal users to use the device directly after the supemount, but when i do chown ben /mnt/diskonkey, everything works fine, even write access. can anyone help? thanks

dmhaas · n00b Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 6

stick a umask=000 in there before the "--". This will make it world readable, writeable and executable. You could also stick in a gid= "number of whatever the group you want to be able to access it" or uid= "user number" and you could still change the umask in there if you so desired. I had this problem w/ mounting a fat32 partition and making it user readable and i fixed it by adding a umask=000 since i'm the only one w/ access to this machine... good luck

Sieg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 87

Hi! Did not want to start a different thread, but I'm also having some problems with this. I have assigned the values in the /etc/fstab file, but everytime I try to go to one of the drives that I put as supermount, I get the following error:

mlynx · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 27

Sieg,

Can you manually mount the drive without supermount (ie mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom)?
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Sieg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 87

Yup, that works for all the drive listed above.

blamothe · Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2003 10:51 pm Post subject:

well, i know that input/output error means that the drive either is not mounted properly, not physically connected to your system, or there is something corrupt on the drive preventing you from accessing it. if you can mount it by hand and access the directory, that rules out the third option. i am not that knowledgable in the supermount area, thats why i started this thread, but i can just suggest that you make sure that the drive is connected properly to your system, and if it still screws up, then something must be wrong with the fstab.

mlynx · n00b Joined: 07 Feb 2003 Posts: 27

Sieg,

Can you creat a mount using the supermount module by hand?

Sieg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 87

Not with that line no... it gives me the mount options dialog.

However, I tried adding the device and yes, it did work with the following

Juki · n00b Joined: 07 Dec 2002 Posts: 19 Location: Finland

Typo? Change iso9600 to iso9660.

Sieg · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 87

Oh congratulations to me!

Thanks for noticing this! hehe! Now cdrom works, I don't have other devices with me, so I'll check later on.

/me feels dumb