Allowing an ordinary user to mount / unmount ntfs partition

[shiningoak]

Hi,

Is there a way to allow ordinary users to mount / unmount an ntfs partition?

I don't want it to be mounted automatically - I can do that. I want it to be mount / unmountable by ordinary users (possibly in a particular group).

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.

Thanks.

[dabl]

From

man mount

The non-superuser mounts.
Normally, only the superuser can mount filesystems. However, when fstab
contains the user option on a line, anybody can mount the corresponding sys‐
tem.

Thus, given a line

/dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide

any user can mount the iso9660 filesystem found on his CDROM using the com‐
mand

mount /dev/cdrom

or

mount /cd

For more details, see fstab(5). Only the user that mounted a filesystem can
unmount it again. If any user should be able to unmount, then use users
instead of user in the fstab line. The owner option is similar to the user
option, with the restriction that the user must be the owner of the special
file. This may be useful e.g. for /dev/fd if a login script makes the con‐
sole user owner of this device. The group option is similar, with the
restriction that the user must be member of the group of the special file.