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. -- Neil Bothwick Keyboard error, Hit <F1> to continue
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