mount -t command for users

[easuter]

is there any way i can change the mount command's permitions so as to allow users to use the -t flag

eg:

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

that only works as root, and i need to use it as a regular user.

so other than changing permissions (not sure if thats possible), is it possible to create a sudo group?
how would i go about creating a sudo group for this command?

thanks in advance

[easuter]

anyone at all?

[Zelmo]

Maybe the best way to do it is to make an entry in /etc/fstab that includes the "user" or "users" option.
For example, here's a section of my fstab that lets any user mount/unmount my USB flash key and its integrated flash card reader:

# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

# Flash drive/card reader (assumes they're sda and sdb)
/dev/sda1       /media/flash    auto    rw,sync,users   0       0
/dev/sdb1       /media/8in1     auto    rw,sync,users   0       0

With something like that in place, any user can mount either device from the command line. The -t option doesn't need to be included in the mount command because the filesystem type is specified in the fstab.

[easuter]

hm, i have edited fstab but it doesnt suit my needs.
i'm making mount and unmount scripts for my parallel port zip100 drive, and there are a few minor anoyances that fstab doesnt fix for me:

1 - if the zip disk is not inserted at boot, then only the drive is listed in /dev (/dev/sda)
2 - i need to use /sbin/partprobe to update the /dev dir so that it can "see" the disk in the drive after i put it in (then becomes /dev/sda4)
3 - if there are any other external devices that use scsi emulation (all pendrives and external hard-drives) mounted before the zip-drive gets mounted, then the zip drive becomes /dev/sdx4

so by making my own mount script in which partprobe is run and the script attemps to mount multiple /dev/sdx drives until it gets the right one, my problem gets solved.

thats why i'm not using fstab...