Nice. Thanks for the info.
On 3/27/07, willhill <williamhill2 at cox.net> wrote: > > I like ext3. > > If you really want to share this big new drive, just mount it as > /home. You > can take the old home and make it your own private storage, after you copy > everyone's home directory to the new drive. > > If you want a place where people can all read and write the same files, > you > might look into groups and premissions, like this: > > http://aplawrence.com/Basics/perms.html > > "The "s" bit on the group set of a directory (e.g. rwxr-srx) causes new > files > created in that directory to have the same group ownership as the > directory > rather than the group id of the user or process creating the file." > > So you make your friends members of various project groups and give each > project that group ownership. > > On the other hand, you might just want the archive for yourself. Here's > how I > did that for a nice little scsi drive: > > willhill at hesiod:~$ cat /etc/fstab > # /etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > 1 > /dev/sda1 /usr ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 > 1 > /dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/sda2 /home/willhill/fast ext3 defaults 0 2 > /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 > willhill at hesiod:~$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 2.8G 2.3G 369M 87% / > udev 253M 104K 253M 1% /dev > devshm 253M 0 253M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda1 3.7G 1.7G 1.8G 49% /usr > /dev/hda3 16G 11G 4.0G 73% /home > /dev/sda2 14G 8.3G 4.2G 67% /home/willhill/fast > > The directory /home/willhill/fast is owned by willhill and so is sda2 when > the > system mounts it. > > On Monday 26 March 2007 1:46 pm, Joe Fruchey wrote: > > This is the first time I've ever dabbled with multiple drives in Linux, > and > > I don't know what to do. Where should I mount it? If I mount it as a > > subdirectory of my home, then it's mine. What if someone else wants to > use > > it? I thought about something like /var/storage, and I did that, but > then I > > had permission problems (because root mounted it, so root owned it). If > I > > tried to 777 it, it only went to 755. I couldn't chown or chgrp it > either. > > I thought reformatting the drive as vfat might solve the permission > issues, > > but it did not. > > > > sudo chown joe /var/storage > > operation not permitted. > > > > sudo chown joe ~/hdb1 > > operation not permitted. > > > > So what do I do? What filesystem should I use? > > > > And yes, for future use, I'll throw an entry in fstab, I was just using > > mount for now. > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070328/9405ecc0/attachment.html
