Without seeing a sample of your fstab
, not too clear how your system is setup. But I believe you can use the user
option in the fstab
entry something like this as explained here; empahsis is mine on the option relevant to your question:
- user/nouser - Permit any user to mount the filesystem. (This automatically implies noexec, nosuid,nodev unless overridden) / Only permit root to mount the filesystem. This is also a default setting.
Now you need to know what the fstab
entry format is like; here is a simple breakdown:
/thing/to/be/mounted /mount/point file_system_type options dump pass
Knowing that, the user
option would be tagged onto the options
list as another comma delimited item like this; and here is a theoretical fstab
entry example for reference:
/dev/sdb1 /home/leetwanker/mount_point ext3 defaults,noatime,user 0 0
So in this example, the file system on /dev/sdb1
will be mounted on the mount point known as /home/leetwanker/mount_point
which has an ext3
file format and has the options defaults,noatime,user
as well as dump and pass values of 0
.
With the user
option in place in the fstab
, reboot your system and you can then use mount
and umount
without any sudo
restriction prompts or requirements.