I now have fstab containing:
# create a common area
LABEL=owlcommon /home/richard/Documents/tst_common vfat user,rw,umask=000
0 0
# a dummy mount labeled to show which instance
LABEL=dummy /home/richard/Documents/debian_a ext4 user,ro
0 0
The first statement gives me a directory usable by all.
The second creates a subdirectory .../debian_a with a file count <> 0.
Am I cheating enough ;/
On 07/04/2018 03:19 PM, wes wrote:
Haha, excellent. If you're not cheating, you're not trying!
-wes
On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:13 PM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote:
But gave hint to cheating "fairly: ;/
Used GParted to reformat to FAT32.
But GParted won't label a FAT partition.
Used "fatlabel" to label it.
Edited fstab:
LABEL=owlcommon /home/richard/Documents/tst_common vfat
user,rw,umask=000 0 0
Tested by editing the fstab of another Debian instance.
Both can read/write that directory.
When I have time I'll test on another machine which can multi boot WinXP.
"fatlabel" gave a warning that Windows might not be happy with a lower case
label. But my immediate problem is solved.
Thank you.
[snip] >>>> 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.
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