My primary use case is a laptop:
1. purchased explicitly for use as a test bed.
2. whose HD has been erased multiple times in ONE day.
3. is isolated from ANY network.
4. has multiple installs of Debian, primarily classed as:
a. a full GUI install - what one would get choosing all
installer defaults.
b. a GUI install limited to the tools I use routinely.
c. an install oriented to whatever my current experiment needs.
5. has 2 classes of "DATA Partitions":
a. those which UID 1000 may mount without entering any
password.
b. those which *ANY* user may mount only by using root
password.
The second use case is an existing machine with WinXP which is
why I do not wish these "DATA Partitions" to be Windows readable.
When origially asking this question in another forum I assumed
(apparently incorrectly) that partitions handled user/group/world
permissions in a manner similar to file systems.
I gather that I can approximately solve the problem with
appropriate entries in /etc/fstab (pointer to good tutorial
please). That approach has short comings:
1. requires custom editing of /etc/fstab for each install.
2. requires custom editing of /etc/fstab for each install
whenever a partition is added.
I've also been pointed to pmount which has similar problems.
Clearer than mud? ;/
TIA
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