Whoops, apparently umask is not the answer for ext partitions. There are further comments there which do claim to work.
-wes On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 11:50 AM, wes <[email protected]> wrote: > Through a quick google of "fstab world writable" (without quotes) I found > this: > > https://superuser.com/questions/174776/modify-fstab- > entry-so-all-users-can-read-and-write-to-an-ext4-volume > > One of the answers suggests using the "umask" option in the fstab entry. I > believe this is what you're looking for. > > -wes > > On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 5:10 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> This Richard is confused ;/ >> >> Using GParted I created an ext4 partition labeled "owlcommon". >> I added the following line to fstab: >> LABEL=owlcommon /home/richard/Documents/tst_common ext4 rw,user 0 0 >> >> On reboot it does appear in the expected file system location. >> >> *BUT* it is locked {owned by root with users only able to read} >> >> I would like all users to have unrestricted access. >> If not possible, since "richard" has the same UID on all systems, I would >> like "richard" to have full access AUTOMATICALLY. >> >> IOW when I do a fresh install to another partition I want to write a line >> to that system's fstab (or elsewhere) such that "richard" automagically has >> full access. >> >> >> >> On 07/03/2018 05:06 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 3 Jul 2018, wes wrote: >>> >>> I suspect the other Richard could be confused in a similar fashion, so >>>> your reply was still valuable. >>>> >>> >>> wes, >>> >>> I must have been undercafinated when I responded. Partitions are >>> always >>> /dev/sd* (or similar) while file systems have names. It's been a hectic >>> day >>> but I won't claim that as an excuse. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> Rich >>> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> PLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
