On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Paul Hartman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> what is needed for read/write access on ext4 disk ?
>>
>> My current fstab entry:
>>
>> /dev/mapper/hate /mnt/hate ext4 noatime,noexec,nodev,noauto,user 0 0
>
> Should work. Mine is similar:
>
> /dev/mapper/cryptoraid  /mnt/raid       ext4
> defaults,noatime,noauto,user_xattr      0       0
>
> (I'm not an authority and my options could be stupid, but it works)
>
> I think if you have permission, the partition is clean (properly
> unmounted), it should be read/write unless you tell it otherwise.

mount tries to grant write access by default.

Funny, I always thought the 'defaults' in the 4th column was a no-op,
kinda like 'none' in the device column for tmpfs.  Seems its got other
implications -

defaults
              Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async.

Wil

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