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[Joe Villari]

I think your mounting command is wrong.

Try mount /mnt/memstick or mount -t msdos /mnt/memstick

John Kebbel wrote:
> My /etc/fstab file reads ...
> 
> /dev/sdb1	/mnt/memstick	msdos	noauto,user,exec,nodev	0	0
> 
> for the flash drive, but when I type mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/memstick as
> myself, I get this message ...
> 
> mount: only root can do that
> 
> If I switch to root, or logout and log back in as root, I can type the
> command and access the drive. The same is true for the zip disk, which
> reads in fstab as 
> 
> /dev/sda4	/mnt/zip	msdos	noauto,user,rw	0	0
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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