Mount foreign usb storage

Question

The aim is to mount any usb storage (say, not mine one) with write rights for normal user. So, use cases with fstab and udev automounting are not acceptable.
OK, I have found this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … ge_Devices wiki page and have tried to follow. In particular, I have:
~ $ sudo blkid -o list -c /dev/null | grep sdc1
/dev/sdc1 ext4 (not mounted) 15bfa2da-6214-4228-851e-c1207b74fc34
~ $ sudo mount -o gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002 /dev/sdc1 /media
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
dmesg shows "Unrecognized mount option" for all these three options (I have tried to remove them one by one). Apparently, ext4 just hasn't these options. But - how to mount?

Answer 1

Congratulations on your choice of Os ;-)
To solve this problem you can try and create a directory called /rmdisk , then start vold running:
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
/etc/init.d/volmgt start
if you are lucky your USB flash will show up under /rmdisk/<name> after a few seconds.
If not you should be able to see the flash with cfgadm, which list the status of USB ports (among other things).
Solaris should automatically create a /dev/dsk/ and /dev/rdsk/ entries for your flash memory, if its not automatically mounted by vold, try and stop vold using
/etc/init.d/volmgt stop
Then do a cd /dev/dsk and run an ls -lart, the USB devices should be among the last devices in that list, then mount it using:
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/<device> /some/directory
the device should end with s2 or p2, some flash devices might also need :c, aka /dev/dsk/<device>:c, it depends how its configured.
See man mount_pcfs for more information...
Hope this helps a bit (:
//Magnus