Mounting digital camera, /etc/fstab joke ?

Steve Traylen s.traylen at rl.ac.uk
Sat Jan 10 18:23:19 UTC 2004


On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Martin Andersen wrote:

> Em Qui, 2003-12-11 às 20:47, Felipe Alfaro Solana escreveu:
> 
> 
> >>>> > > When I turn on my Sony DSC-P31 USB camera, a new
> >>>> > > line is added to /etc/fstab:
> >>>> > > /dev/sda1               /mnt/camera             auto    
> >>>> > > noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> >>>> > > Very nice, but the system doesn't mount the camera. ls /mnt/camera shows
> >>>> > > nothing. So I need to do mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera for getting
> >>>> > > access to the camera (only as root).

You can add some lines to /etc/updfstab.conf
Have a  read of the man page for updfstab.conf

eg I have for memeory stick

device memstick {
   partition 1
   match hd "Key Drive"
}

The "Key Drive" is a string I see in dmesg after pushing the memory
stick in.

Once added and possibly restarting kudzu, plugging and unplugging the
device will edit your fstab file for eg adding a line like
/dev/sda1               /mnt/memstick           auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

The user logged in at the console will then be able to mount with a simple
mount /mnt/memstick  Or from the gnome desktop as well.

 Steve





> >>>      
> >>>
> >> # chown your_user_id /dev/sda3
> >> Then, you'll be able to mount the camera as a non-root user.
> >  
> >
> 
> "Why does this happens on every redhat/fedora box? I've been using redhat
> distros for so long I cannot say anything about mandrake or suse, but
> seems they are long way ahead on this: an average user can mount a
> camera, record cds, whatever. And we still need to change this manually
> on EVERY installation.
> 
> This seems plain stupid to me. Make things difficult."
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Actually, as one other person said, it's enough to write /mnt/camera as non-root.
> Still, this is a major problem for the average/new user, who will never think of
> this. The system should pop up with Konqueror/Nautilus/whatever, having mounted the
> camera automatically.
> 
> Martin.
> 
> 
> 
> 

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Steve Traylen
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