On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Nandan Marathe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Neel Mehta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks for your replies. >> >> "user" is to allow the user to mount the partition and to unmount it and >> no other user other than which mounted it should be allowed to unmount it. >> for "users", anyone can unmount it. >> >> the "uid" parameter does not work for ext4 partition. >> >> the options that i have now are default,auto. i just had to change file >> permissions as Nitesh mentioned. actually, the folder /media/DISK1_VOL2 was >> a root folder as it was created by mount, and hence I did not have any >> permissions for that. so, i was unable to create any file/folder. but i m >> still surprised by the fact that i can create files inside another partition >> (/media/DISK1_VOL1) which is of ntfs format, even though the DISK1_VOL1 >> folder is a root folder. >> > Thats because the ntfs mount (either default ntfs or ntfs-3g) allows the > gid uid parameters in the fstab entries. > if i am correct, ntfs-3g is just to enable rw parameters. here is the ntfs line from my fstab file: UUID=30F4EB2DF4EAF44E /media/DISK1_VOL1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0 > for ext4 you > would have to make the user the owner of the mounted folder. You can > probably use pmount if you wish to allow mounting for non-root (sudo) users. > with mount also it works. just need to provide additional option/property - user/users > >> Thanks and Regards, >> Neel Mehta >> Fourth year Undergraduate student, >> Electrical Engineering, >> IIT Bombay >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Nitesh Mistry >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 08:55:05PM +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote: >>> > Try adding 'uid=1000' to the options. It solved my problem. >>> >>> >>> I guess I was a little short on explanation. '1000' here denotes my user >>> id. Yours may be different (ie. if your's was not the first user to be >>> created on the system). To find your uid, type 'id' in the terminal, and >>> it will give you your uid number. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Nitesh Mistry >>> www.mistrynitesh.com >>> >>> >>> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >>> Version: 3.12 >>> GB/J/IT/O>TW d+(-) s+:+>: a- C+ UL>+++ P L++>+++ !E W++ N* o? K? w--- O? >>> M-- V? PS+() PE(++)(-) Y+ PGP+ t 5? X R tv+ b+ DI D G e+++>++++ h-- !r y? >>> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >>> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) >>> >>> iEYEARECAAYFAkxVlEkACgkQUc4Z+sxYBBZVSwCgtvAbM4nETgVSSYmW5RNG11+m >>> /5IAn0PSUYtFizNCng96tliu7xGmNpji >>> =JuGa >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-in mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >>> >>> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-in mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >> >> > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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