How do I mount an HFS partition as non-root?

[Clinton MacDonald]

Friends:

I want to be able to access my HFS partition on my PowerBook from a 
user account rather than as root. Preferably, I would like to see the 
partition in the Konquerer file browser so that I can move files using 
drag-and-drop. Is there a way to mount the HFS partition in my user 
account? (This must be a frequently asked question, but I have not 
found anything on the YDL site.)

Background:

I finally installed YDL on my Wallstreet PowerBook G3 Series (with an 
updated 25 GB hard drive). My setup has a 7.5 GB HFS+ partition with 
Mac OS 9.1 (and I will probably load OS X on it soon), a 1 GB HFS 
partition (for compatibility with both Mac OS and YDL was my hope), and 
the remainder (~16 GB) formatted for YDL.

According to the YDL manual (which is nicely written overall, though 
sketchy in a few spots), I can mount the HFS partition if I am logged 
in as root:

[clint]% su
Password: ******
[root@clint]% mkdir /mnt/macos #create a new "mount point" and name it 
"macos"
[root@clint]% mount /dev/hda10 /mnt/macos -thfs #mount the hfs 
partition (hda10) at macos

 From this point, I can copy files from the HFS partition to my Home 
directory. Then I can use "chmod" to give the files read/write 
permissions for my user account.

I know, I know: this is The Linux Way. It only took me about thirty 
minutes last night to copy one file (consulting the manual all the 
way). With practice, I could probably get the process down to about 
seven or eight minutes. And, it's a pain in the ASCII. :-)

 From Konquerer, I tried to navigate to the /mnt/macos directory, but I 
could not see any folders or files. :-( I suppose I could always login 
to X as "root," but that would defeat the purposes of having a 
privileged superuser.

Thanks!

Best wishes,
Clint

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Dr. Clinton C. MacDonald | <mailto:clint.macdonald@ttuhsc.edu>