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Sector11

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From: Upstairs

Registered: 2015-08-20

Posts: 8,214

pmount problems

I'm having fun with external USB drives, I have 2

/dev/sdb1/ and /dev/sdc1/

they are not mounted automatically, they are not in /ect/fstab that's why I want to use pmount.  However I get this:

 2026·05·18 @ 19:11:06 ~
   $ sfdisk -l
sfdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: Permission denied
sfdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Permission denied
sfdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: Permission denied
 
 2026·05·18 @ 19:11:24 ~
   $ pmount /dev/sdb1/
bash: pmount: command not found
 
 2026·05·18 @ 19:12:14 ~
   $ ser pmount
alias ser = aptitude search
p   pmount                          - mount removable devices as normal user   
 
 2026·05·18 @ 19:14:24 ~
   $ 

Colour me confused.

Anyone got any ideas?

Not just pmount.  On occasions I'll get

bash: something_here: command not found

be it a bash script in ~/bin or something installed

IF I open Thunar and mount the drives I can run my bash scripts to backup my system to them.

 2026·05·18 @ 19:44:24 ~
   $ s11bk
    Syncing /home
      to /media/sector11/disk/S11-May/
    Syncing /media/5/
      to /media/sector11/disk/M5/
    Syncing /media/10/
      to /media/sector11/disk/M10/
    Syncing /media/11/
      to /media/sector11/disk/M11/

backup.ROOt.txt        M10  M5	     S11-May	      Sector11-readme.txt
config.openbox.my.old  M11  S11-Aug  S11-Sep	      up2.lillydog.usblive.txt
d11-root	       M12  S11-Mar  scrot_conky.png
 
 To remove a directory
 use rm command: rm -f -r /media/sector11/disk/S11-MONTH
 
 
 2026·05·18 @ 19:44:56 ~
   $ 

 2026·05·18 @ 19:45:32 ~
   $ s11bk1
    Syncing /home
      to /media/sector11/1TB1/S11-May/
    Syncing /media/5/
      to /media/sector11/1TB1/M5/
    Syncing /media/10/
      to /media/sector11/1TB1/M10/
    Syncing /media/11/
      to /media/sector11/1TB1/M11/

backup.ROOt.txt        M10  M5	     S11-May	      Sector11-readme.txt
config.openbox.my.old  M11  S11-Mar  scrot_conky.png  up2.lillydog.usblive.txt
 
 To remove a directory
 use rm command: -f -r /media/sector11/1TB1/S11-MONTH
 
 
 2026·05·18 @ 19:47:31 ~
   $ 

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