mount a partition without root password

[llvmech]

I have a data partition that is not mounted on boot, thats how I like it, but when I mount it as regular user I have to give root passwd .... how can I make it so that it wouldn't need root passwd to monut it?

Thanks
Erick

[Doug G]

You can use fuse as a regular user. I think the program is fusermount but the documentation for fuse is hidden somewhere. man fusermount isn't there on my F17 but the program is.

[george_toolan]

Try

       The non-superuser mounts.
              Normally,  only  the  superuser can mount filesystems.  However,
              when fstab contains the user option on a line, anybody can mount
              the corresponding system.

              Thus, given a line

                     /dev/cdrom  /cd  iso9660  ro,user,noauto,unhide

              any  user  can  mount  the iso9660 filesystem found on his CDROM
              using the command

                     mount /dev/cdrom

              or

                     mount /cd

[Gareth Jones]

The "user" or "users" mount options in /etc/fstab are the normal way to do that. "users" allows a disk to unmounted by a different user to the one who mounted it, whereas "user" causes the user who originally mounted it to "own" that mount.

[Skull One]

Originally Posted by llvmech

I have a data partition that is not mounted on boot, thats how I like it, but when I mount it as regular user I have to give root passwd .... how can I make it so that it wouldn't need root passwd to monut it?

Thanks
Erick

There is udisks for you:

udisks --mount /dev/sda1  <mountpoint>

Check 'man udisks' for details.

[llvmech]

Thanks for the replies ....

[dd_wizard]

Actually, check man [B]udisksctl/B] for command line tools.

dd_wizard