On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 15:02 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. ---- you might want to consider doing things like this... if all 'users' are members of 'users' group chgrp users /mnt/Holding -R chmod g+s /mnt/Holding -R chmod g+w /mnt/Holding -R bear in mind that users with a default umask of 022 will create files with a 644 and folders with 755 permissions which means that other users will not be able to 'write' into those directories or over those files. Craig
