On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 11:27:25 +1300, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > very interesting thread, wjich has got me thinking > > I have an ext3 (extended) partition (hda3) that I want to make mount/umount & > writable by all users > > As it stands only root can create folders but users can read and write to them > once created > > currently the fstab entry looks like this: > > /dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 ext3 auto,users,exec 0 0
Change auto to noauto. It won't be mounted on boot, but any user can mount it by clicking on it or with the mount command. > Is it a mask issue that prevents ordinary users creating/deleting the folders > or is there chmod issue? If it is mounted at boot time, then it is done as root. If you do as I suggest, then the user who mounts the partition will have rights to use it (although they may not have permissions to some of the files within it). This is all good for desktops and laptops, but is probably no good for a server where you want multiple people accessing the partition simultaneously. But I'm assuming this is not a server if you want users to be able to umount it as you have said above. What are the permissions of /mnt/hda6 when it is mounted? -- Later David Kirk ** Beware the dreaded GMail reply-to header if replying to this message **
