Re^4: A CGI script to list the files on my external harddrive

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Re^5: A CGI script to list the files on my external harddrive by tirwhan (Abbot) on Nov 14, 2006 at 16:48 UTC
In Linux, (at least all the flavors I know), drives connected through a usb port are owned by root and cannot be changed This is incorrect. Take a look at the `user` option in the `mount` man page. You can make a drive user-mountable by putting something like the following into `/etc/fstab`: `/dev/sdc1 /mnt/external ext3 user,noauto 0 0` [download] This will allow any user to mount the partition `/dev/sdc1` under `/mnt/external`. The user who mounts the device will also own the mountpoint (i.e. directory). Not that this has anything to do with Perl, but it seemed pertinent information :-) All dogma is stupid.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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