How to mount a partition as root and make it world read-write?

[Paul Howarth]

VJ wrote:
> Hi Alex
> 
>     That is not what I want. I do not wish to execute any statement apart
> from the options in fstab. Also the method you told does not work at all
> because if the root mounts that partition, other uses cannot create
> files/directories(I tested it, did you?)

It works fine here. Are you *sure* that the filesystem on this partition is 
ext2 and not something that doesn't support Unix IDs like vfat?

Paul.