Problem with USB hard disk

[rg00]

I have a Debian Sarge machine without X and I wanto to mount an external hard disk as user, so I modified /etc/fstab by adding this line:

/dev/sda1       /mnt/usb        vfat    rw,users,auto   0       0

but I can't mount it:

roberto@ferro:~$ mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: only root can do that

I don't find a solution, I read some tutorial but it makes me confused about fstab options.

[anomie]

You've correctly added the users option to allow users to mount the filesystem. Judging from the error message, it sounds like vfat filesystems do not honor that option.

Did you test to see if you are able to mount it as root? If so, is setting the user up as a sudoer (to mount only) an option?

[devils casper]

/dev/sda1       /mnt/usb        vfat    defaults,umask=0 0 0

[rg00]

I solved with

/dev/sda1    /mnt/usb    vfat    rw,noauto,user,uid=1000     0   0

and I can mount with

mount /mnt/usb

Thank you