On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 17:59:24 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:

> My problem right now is that I'd like to mount /dev/sda8/herb under
> /home/herb but I don't know how to mount the directory there. I also
> don't know how to mount the top of the drive under /home/herb and give
> him write access.

The root of a partiton belongs to the user that mounted, whjich is root if
it was mounted from fstab. Check out the uid and gid options in man mount
to mount it as a different user. You need something like

/dev/hdX /home/herb ext3 uid=xxx,gid=yyy,other,options 0 0

> There's a lost+found directory he'd see that I'd
> prefer he didn't, etc.

Delete it, it's not needed.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Bury a lawyer 12 feet under, because deep down they're nice.

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