mount problem

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Fri Jan 26 15:02:07 UTC 2007


On Friday 26 January 2007 14:37, T. Horsnell wrote:
> >I have a partition for holding temporary large files, which fstab causes
> > to be mounted as ro for user.  I tried changing fstab as so:
> >
> >LABEL=/mnt/Holding      /mnt/Holding            ext3    user,rw         1
> > 2
> >
> >saved, then
> >
> >mount -a
> >
> >ls -l /mnt/
> >total 24
> >drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4096 Feb 25  2006 FC4home
> >drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Nov  1 10:38 FC4root
> >drwxr-xr-x  6 root root 4096 Jan 25 19:10 Holding
> >
> >ls -l /mnt/Holding
> >total 40
> >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jan 26 11:17 Egypt
> >drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov  1 10:45 lost+found
> >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr 18  2006 MickyAndy
> >drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jan 11 13:45 RomanticRoad2
> >
> >I do need to be able to utilise space in these directories.  What am I
> >missing?
>
> If your problem is that the directories are still owned by root,
> then simply changing from user,ro to user,rw wont fix that.
>
> ro/rw affects the writeablity at the device level, not at the
> per-user level. It wont change ownership of the directories
> on the device.
>
> What did you hope would happen? Did you want the directories
> to become owned by the user who mounted the device?
>
I simply want users to be able to write to those directories.  I hate having 
to do things as root when it isn't necessary or advisable for security.  
The /mnt/Holding one is the vital one.  That was deliberately set up with 
huge amounts of space for this purpose.

Anne
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