On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:06:51 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:

> > 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
> 
> I thought that the uid= and gid= options were specific to vfat 
> partitions (at least that's what man mount says).

You're right, but I hit this problem once and fixed it. Maybe it was as
simple as setting ownership of the mount point before attempting to mount
the partition.


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Neil Bothwick

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