On 7/23/07, Sean Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What I really want to do is configure the system so that the partitions are > mounted at pre-defined points, and writeable by the logged in user. > > any ideas welcome!
Note the devices on which your usb drive gets mounted (sda1, sda2 etc). In fstab, add these two devices and mark them as "noauto" in the options column (which is usually set to "defautls" only). You can now plug in the drive and mount the partitions to mount points of your choice. To make them writeable by a particular user, specify the UID of that user and/or a suitable umask in the options column in fstab. The partitions will now be owned by the particular user, and have permissions as per the umask. Regards, NMK.
