----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > 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