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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