Am Di, den 06.01.2004 schrieb Trevor Smith um 06:23: > On Monday 05 January 2004 11:04 pm, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > If you really want to write as a normal user inside the mysql directory > > on the windows partition you should think over adding a special > > maintaining user and add him to the mysql group. Become this new user > > No, wait. I think you might have just suggested a solution to my problem, but > I'm not quite sure. > > You see, I don't want to write inside the MySQL directory -- I have set the > ownership of the entire partition to 'mysql' so I can't write to *any* of it > as my normal user (trevor). This point I did understand as it is the normal behaviour when mounting a vfat partition with uid and gid. > Maybe what I should do is somehow set just the MySQL data directory that I > have set on the vfat partition to be owned by 'mysql'. The rest could be > owned by 'trevor' (since I'm the only one using the system). That would of course solve your problem - if it is possible. You could try "mount --bind" and see if that will overwrite the trevor uid with the mysql uid for the mysql directory. See "man mount" for it. I am not sure if that works with vfat! > Does that sound right? I'll have to go read about how to do that... Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany PGP key valid: made 13.07.1999 PGP fingerprint: 2307 88FD 2D41 038E 7416 14CD E197 6E88 ED69 5653
