Debian – Only Root Can Mount on Raspberry Pi

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I am new to UNIX and I have been trying to setup Transmission on my new Raspberry Pi. I have formatted my external USB drive to ext4 and added the following line to the /etc/fstab.

/dev/sda1         /media/USB96    ext4    defaults           0       0

It works fine but when I login as pi (instead of root) it returns an error when mounting the drive

mount: only root can do that

I'm stuck here because when I try to download a torrent with the Transmission web interface it also returns an error:

Permission denied (/media/USB96/torrents/complete/my torrent link)

Please help me to solve this problem and tell me how to allow the normal user pi to mount and have access to the USB drive.

Best Answer

You should change your /etc/fstab entry to this:

/dev/sda1         /media/USB96    ext4    defaults,user           0       0

According to the fstab(5) manpage, the user option allows any user to mount the file system.

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