----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:57 PM Subject: Re: How to mount a partition as root and make it world read-write? > VJ wrote: > > The method you suggest was known to me, but the thing is i do not want > > to execute anything apart from using fstab file. If everything else fails, I > > will use this method as the last resort. > > There are two phases to getting what you want: > > 1. Preparing the filesystem, and > 2. Setting up the fstab file. > > If the filesystem is prepared properly, the following fstab file entry will work: > > /dev/hdh3 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2 > > Now, could you run those commands and show us the output? > > Paul. > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > under root login, /etc/fstab contains the following line (i changed your ext3 to ext2) *********************** /dev/hdh3 /t ext2 defaults 1 2 *********************** then root mounted /t *********************** [root@dxr ~]# mount /t *********************** under mythtv user *********************** [mythtv@dxr work]$ mkdir /t/t mkdir: cannot create directory `/t/t': Permission denied [mythtv@dxr work]$ *********************** Regards from VJ
