Re: How to access loop-aes mounted vfat filesystem as non-root user- help required!

[Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@xxxxxxx>]

Phil H wrote:
> > I also notice a benefit of sudo mount: the filesystem
> > does not seem to have to be specified in the
> > commandline.
>
>
> > mount as sudo must somehow work this out for itself.
>
>
> It's dawned (!) on me that this is because I'm using
> fat options in the mount line, so mount automatically
> assumes it's a (v)fat filesystem.
>
> The downside is I can then no longer mount eg
> ext2-formatted volumes using the same script line.
>
> So, either in the mount line or in /etc/fstab, I must
> tell mount what filesystem type is to be mounted.

Have you tried the "-s" option?


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