mount / umount

Panagiotis Astithas past at noc.ntua.gr
Wed Jan 7 04:22:32 PST 2004


On Wednesday 07 January 2004 13:58, Tim Robbins wrote:
> Fabrizio Parrella wrote:
> ># sysctl vfs.usermount
> >vfs.usermount: 1
> >
> >any other ideas?
>
> Make sure that msdosfs support is compiled into the kernel or has been
> loaded as a module before you try to mount the filesystem as a normal
> user. (This is a semi-FAQ; see
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-current&m=107240592221911&w=2)

Interestingly though, this doesn't seem to work in my case. I have compiled in 
support for msdosfs, ntfs, libiconv, libmchain, msdosfs_iconv & ntfs_iconv. I 
have also set vfs.usermount=1, put myself in the wheel & operator groups and 
made group rw the device files and mountpoints. 

I still get an "Operation not permitted error" when I try to access the ntfs 
partition for instance. What else could be affecting things?
-- 
Panagiotis Astithas
Electrical & Computer Engineer, PhD
Network Management Center
National Technical University of Athens, Greece



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