>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? Cheers, Terry. > >Anne
