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Does mount always require root privileges?

I was under the impression that any sort of call to mount requires root privileges. But recently I was told "You should instead create appropriate entries in /etc/fstab so that the filesystems can be ...
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Suggestions needed for udev, udisks, autofs, notification setup for a complete automounting solution on Linux

Continuing on Automounting plugged devices in linux, which left things a bit basic. Running Gentoo, I'm automounting a combination of local and network devices on my laptop with autofs-5.0.4-r5. Doing ...
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When networkmanager is used, OpenSuSe gets stuck during boot for 10 minutes

I have this problem on all machines that I every installed (different configurations, different geographical locations, even different OpenSuSe versions) and it's extremely irritating. When I turn on ...
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Automatically mount network drive when available

I have a NAT drive, that is accessible via SMB. I have an entry in fstab to mount it at boot. But if the drive is not switched on it is not mounted during boot and I have to manually mount later. (The ...