On 12/10/2004 12:20:58 AM, Stephan Groß wrote:
> > What are the permissions on > > /media > /media/usbdisk
They are (of course) owned by root and only writable for root but if I
mount a
FAT-partition, the ownership is changed automatically to the user who
mounted
it. So, to render my question more precisely: Why isn't the ownership
of a
mounted ext3 partition not ajusted to the id of the mounting user?
As far existing files on the disk, they will only be writable by the UID that created them (or GID if group has write permissions) because ext2/ext3 preserves permissions as a filesystem - fat32 doesn't.
As root, create a directory on the ext3 partition, and give rwx to your user. I bet your user can then rwx in that directory, no matter who mounts it. That's probably what you need to do - create directories on it owned by the users that are allowed to use it. Then those users can use it. Or you could create a directory on it with 777 permissions - like /tmp is (I think you also would want to set the sticky but, not positive)
