[ubuntu-za] Re Kingston flash " you are not privileged to mount the volume ' Kingston'"

[Jonathan Groll]

On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 02:21:18PM +0200, SHAWN REITSTEIN wrote:
>Here's that first script:
>

Okay, this is what your /etc/fstab file looks like now:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=b1c74044-7555-4a8c-aacc-f64ef2221c1e /               ext3
relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=54d864f0-53ab-44c4-8e7a-0d88a5885b63 none            swap    sw
            0       0
/dev/scd1       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/sdb1	/media/Gaia	ntfs	defaults 	0


I would try commenting out the last line of the file, it is probably
interfering with the automounting of the Kingston. 

So, in other words this file will need to be edited as the root
user. So you need to launch your text editor as the root user. Try
typing

gksu gedit /etc/fstab 

into a terminal in order to edit this file as the root user.

Warning: you could do some damage to the system so be careful what you
type, and if possible make a copy of the file before you edit it.

Go to the very last line. Put a # character at the beginning of the
line so that it now looks like:

#/dev/sdb1	/media/Gaia	ntfs	defaults 	0

Save the file. 

Has it fixed your problem?

Regards,
Jonathan.