On Friday 26 January 2007 16:06, T. Horsnell wrote: > > > >If I chgrp and chmod, wouldn't that last for one session only? IOW - > > Wouldn't it be overwritten when I boot up tomorrow? > > If you simply make /mnt/HOLDING world read/write *after* your > filesystem is mounted on it, and add the 'sticky' bit, the > directory will function like /tmp. i.e. anyone can read/write/execute > but only the owner can delete. Is this suitable? > > chmod a+rwxt /mnt/Holding (or chmod 1777 /mnt/Holding) > > will do it, and the permission should stay-put across re-mounts. > Thanks, Aaron and Terry. I've sorted the subdirectories, and now, hopefully, the mount directory. I was under the impression that fstab would cause it to be always mounted the way it was, as root:root. I'll check tomorrow, just to make sure :-) Thanks again Anne
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