problems mounting camera to download pics ....

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 21:54:10 UTC 2015


On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:38 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
wrote:

>
>
> .... I am trying to mount my digital camera to download some pics I just
> took. When I do this as root, it works AOK & I got the pics off. However,
> when I changed my fstab file to (supposedly) allow regular users to mount
> that directory, the mount command fails:
>
>
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:33:11am] 530 % mount /media/flash/
> mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Operation not permitted
> [wam at kabini1, ~, 11:35:58am] 530 %
>
>
> relevant lines from my fstab file:
>
>
> /dev/da0s1      /media/flash            msdosfs
> rw,sync,noauto,longnames,-Lru_RU.UTF-8,users    0       0
> # /dev/da0s1    /media/flash            msdosfs
> rw,sync,noauto,longnames,-Lru_RU.UTF-8          0       0
>
>
> FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE-p9
>
> Not a huge issue, since I can get 'er done as root, but I don't see why
> this shouldn't be feasible as a regular user .... TIA & have a nice, snowy
> (here) day ;-) ....
>

sysctl vfs.usermount=1

-- 
Adam


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