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  • what distribution are you using? what desktop? could you mount the drive at system startup (eg, from /etc/fstab) instead? Commented Apr 14, 2010 at 9:39
  • I am using Ubuntu 9.10 with GNOME. Yes, I can mount the drive using /etc/fstab but that will make that partition available for all users which I don't want. I want only root to have access to that partition. Any thoughts on this?
    – Uthman
    Commented Apr 14, 2010 at 9:45
  • @Usman mount it with the right permissions. Commented Apr 14, 2010 at 12:18
  • If I mount /mnt such that give only root all permissions then my startup program cannot access the data in /mnt.
    – Uthman
    Commented Apr 15, 2010 at 8:02
  • much better question @Usman Commented Apr 15, 2010 at 12:32