mounting removalbe disk as non-root problem [unsolved]

[nielchiano]

Hi,

I have a nice USB-stick. I managed to get it to work under linux. so that's not the problem.
The problem is: I want to to be mountable by the (normal) users. So I added it to /etc/fstab with apropriate options

The problem is: when I instert the stick, dmesg tells me it's recognized. However, the devices /dev/sdb{1,2} aren't created (I use devfs on a 2.6.5)

if I su to root and do a "fdisk -l /dev/sdb" everything jumps into place and works.

What is wrong?

[nielchiano]

bump

[Nate_S]

This seems to be a common problem wit usb-storage divices. My compact flash card does this, but my usb stick works perfiectly. Often, people have said that moving to udev helps, so you might give that a try. Also, on my compactflash, just doing

touch /dev/sda

works fine, and non root can do that, so that might be a workaround you can use.

Good luck,
Nate

[nielchiano]

can you give me some references on how to switch to udev?