Amadeus W. M. wrote: > I just added a new disk to my pc and I made 2 xfs partitions. Then I > created directories /backup and /data2 and I put these lines in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/hda1 /backup xfs defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda2 /data2 xfs defaults 1 2 > > I want normal users to be able to write to those partitions so I did > > chown root:users /backup > chmod 775 /backup > > and similarly for /data2. However, when I mount the partitions (as root) > the permissions change to 755. > > 14) root:~> ls -ld /backup/ > drwxrwxr-x 2 root users 4096 Jan 24 20:32 /backup/ > 15) root:~> mount /backup/ > 16) root:~> ls -ld /backup/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 6 Jan 19 15:02 /backup/ > > > What do I do? I'm puzzled especially because I have one more xfs partition > created in the yore days of FC4 (running FC6 now with kernel 2.6.19-1.2895) > with a similar entry in /etc/fstab: > > LABEL=/data1 /data xfs defaults 1 2 > > with the same ownership and permissions (775) that doesn't change > permissions when mounted. What gives? The permissions and ownership information is kept on the file system itself. Simply mount the file system in question and change the permissions. You will then see that when you unmount and remount the file system the permissions will be as you want them to be. -- Oh Dad! We're ALL Devo!
