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Date:      Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:21:50 +0800
From:      Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To:        B J <va6bmj@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't Mount USB Drive As User Under FreeBSD 10
Message-ID:  <20140214132150.6d7db9d0@X220.alogt.com>
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Hi,

On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 04:39:46 +0000
B J <va6bmj@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've had problems configuring the machine to mount external USB
> drives.  I can mount USB thumb drives when logged in as root using:
> 
> mount -t msdosfs -o -m=644,-M=755 /dev/da0s1 /mnt/root

this hints that just some of your access rights are wrong. Just ask a
search engine for allowing user to mount devices.

You need to be able to read and write to /dev/da0s1 as a user if you
want to allow users to mount it. 

Erich



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