Hi, On 10/12/07, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 12 October 2007 00:32, P Kapat wrote: > > I have been banging my head for quite a few hours now. Can't I mount a > > fixed (internal SATA) drive with write access as a normal user? Here > > is the relevant line from fstab: > > > > /dev/sdb1 /media/backup ext3 user,noauto,rw 0 0 > > > > $ ls -l /media/backup > > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 03:12 /media/backup > > > > $ mount /dev/sdb1 > > $ ls -l /media/backup > > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 03:12 /media/backup > > > > Why am I loosing the write access?? > > You are (probably) not losing the write access, as a cat > of /proc/mounts will (probably) show you. > > Before the mount /media/backup (probably) refers to the > /media/backup directory of the root filesystem. After the > mount /media/backup refers to the root directory of the > /dev/sdb1 filesystem.
Thanks a ton for the explanation mate. > Although you (probably) have write access to the /dev/sdb1 > partition, you do not have write access to the root directory > of the /dev/sdb1 filesystem. You may or may not have write > access to other directories or files in the /dev/sdb1 > filesystem. It is similar to the way that user foo typically > has no write access to the / directory but does have write > access to the /home/foo directory. Precisely. I have been thinking how does it work? Now I know! > A first step would be, after the mount, to either chmod or > chown /media/backup (or both). Like any other change to the > /dev/sdb1 filesystem, this is stored in the filesystem. If > you umount and mount the filesystem the change will still be > there, so the change only ever needs to be done once. Great. Thanks for that. I should remember this now! > > --Mike Bird -- Regards PK -------------------------------------- http://counter.li.org #402424 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
