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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:41:22AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote |
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> > I goto the root console which is always open on one of my desktops |
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> > & enter 'musb', which is a Bash alias for a 'mount' command; |
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> Leaving aside the implications of leaving open a root console, |
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My scripts use pmount and pumount, which are hard-coded to only |
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mount/unmount devices in directory /media. |
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> that mounts the stick as root. That's fine for a FAT filesystem as |
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> you can specify mount options to make it world-readable, but what |
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> about an external drive formatted with ext? What about an external |
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> drive with multiple partitions? |
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pmount/pumount to the rescue. See... |
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http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/pmount.1.html |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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