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

[VJ]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: How to mount a partition as root and make it world read-write?


> 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.
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Yes I am 100% sure that it is ext2 (i re-created it just now after reading
your mail). The / is reiserfs.

Regards from
VJ