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Answer by Jaap Joris Vens for mount and fstab: why can they be configured to...

The reason behind this, as with many Unix/Linux peculiarities, is of course historical. Unix, which itself evolved out of Unics (a pun on its predecessor Multics) was designed as a true multi user...

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Answer by Vojtech Trefny for mount and fstab: why can they be configured to...

The man page also talks about unmounting, it is on your screenshot -- if you want to allow unmounting by any user, you need to use the users option.If any user should be able to unmount it, then use...

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mount and fstab: why can they be configured to allow users to mount but not...

I noticed recently that is possible to allow normal user/s to mount a device through fstab, but apparently in any case umount can only be done by root.Even the man page of mount only talks about...

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