[Gllug] mount by users other than root

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Tue Apr 5 13:43:46 UTC 2005


On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, t. clarke wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt response
> I was specifying by partition ID (LABEL=/XXX)
> 
> Your reply prompted me to try defining the partition simply by name
> (eg: /dev/hda9).    Umount now works correctly.   Must be a bug in the program
> which has never been fixed, I guess !!

>From util-linux-2.12o/HISTORY:

: util-linux 2.11y
[...]
: * umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid

util-linux 2.11y was released 26 Nov 2002.

HTH.

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