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Mounting exfat as normal user?

PostPosted: Jul 19th, '15, 17:35
by arromdee
In 4.0 I used to be able to do this, with exfat-fuse as the filesystem type in /etc/fstab. In 5.0 it seems to be impossible.

I have in /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb1 /media/exfat exfat-fuse users,rw,umask=000,iocharset=utf8,noauto 0 0

This works as root but fails as a normal user.

http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g ... seroption3 tells me that I can't do it using Fuse unless ntfs-3g is compiled with integrated Fuse support. It isn't. Is there some way to do it without Fuse? Directly putting ntfs-3g in /etc/fstab as the filesystem type silently fails as a user and as root produces the error "NTFS signature is missing."

Re: Mounting exfat as normal user?

PostPosted: Jul 19th, '15, 21:54
by doktor5000
arromdee wrote:http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#useroption3 tells me that I can't do it using Fuse unless ntfs-3g is compiled with integrated Fuse support.

You're asking for exFAT. Where is the relation to ntfs-3g and why do you ask for ntfs-3g?

Please show the actual output when you try to mount it as user
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mount -v /media/exfat

Re: Mounting exfat as normal user?

PostPosted: Jul 20th, '15, 19:52
by arromdee
You're asking for exFAT. Where is the relation to ntfs-3g and why do you ask for ntfs-3g?


If you want to tell me that ntfs-3g is the wrong type to use, you could just say so. Even better, you could tell me the right one to use instead.

Please show the actual output when you try to mount it as user


With "exfat-fuse" in /etc/fstab, I get this:

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/tmp% mount /media/exfat
FUSE exfat 1.1.0
fusermount: option blkdev is privileged
/tmp%


The page I indicated tells me what this message means for ntfs-3g. I see now that ntfs-3g is not what I need, but I don't know what I need and it clearly doesn't work.