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Neil Bothwick wrote: | 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. | |
Once the filesystem is mounted, you can set the ownership and permissions to whatever you want (as root). Then just and the entry to the /etc/fstab and each time it is mounted it will have those permissions.
Mike
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