usb thumb drives no longer mountable by user in fc3

dan info at hostinthebox.net
Fri Feb 18 18:29:12 UTC 2005


John H. wrote:
> Ok, fc2/fc3, by default, when you insert a usb thumb
> drive or whatever, creates a dir in /media, and in
> nautilus, an icon you can click on to mount the
> device, and access.
> 
> however, apparently due to some recent updates, my
> fc3, only root can mount those things in /media
> anymore, despite the dirs being created automatically,
> like /media/usbdisk.  The dir is created, but only
> root can mount.
> 
> 
> how do I get users to be able to mount them again?
> 

What does /etc/fstab say for the mountpoint /media?

Thanks
-dant




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