Hi, This has long been a sort of hack area of me in terms of sys admin at home - giving a user account access to the top of a new external drive. I'd like to learn to do this right. Maybe someone can set me straight about what root needs to do to make this work.
OK, so as root I partition & format the USB drive to get it ready, and then I modify fstab with the following addition: c2stable ~ # cat /etc/fstab | grep VideoLib LABEL=VideoLib /mnt/VideoLib ext3 auto,rw,users 0 0 c2stable ~ # Having done that, as well as making the /mnt/VideoLib mount point, my user account can now mount & umount the drive: mark@c2stable ~ $ mount /mnt/VideoLib/ mark@c2stable ~ $ df -h | grep VideoLib /dev/sdf1 458G 199M 435G 1% /mnt/VideoLib mark@c2stable ~ $ umount /mnt/VideoLib/ mark@c2stable ~ $ df -h | grep VideoLib mark@c2stable ~ $ The problem is that at this point my user account cannot create a new directory on that drive: mark@c2stable ~ $ mount /mnt/VideoLib/ mark@c2stable ~ $ df -h | grep VideoLib /dev/sdf1 458G 199M 435G 1% /mnt/VideoLib mark@c2stable ~ $ mkdir /mnt/VideoLib/Video mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/VideoLib/Video': Permission denied mark@c2stable ~ $ In the past I've gotten around this by having root mount the drive and then change ownership to mark:users once it's mounted. Linux remembers I've done that once and no longer requires me to do anything else as root. Is that truly required or is there a way to give the user access to the top of the new mount point without roots' involvement? Thanks, Mark
