Brad Rogers: > > I'm curious as to why, when I change the filesystem type to ext3 on a > USB hard drive, I cannot write to the drive from normal user space, > only root access is allowed.
When mounting a filesystem on a directory, say, /mnt/test, the
filesystem's root directory "covers" the old directory /mnt/test, which
probably lives on your root filesystem. That means you're dealing with
two directories with distinct permissions. When you are using ext2/3 (or
any other UNIX file system), these permissions are stored inside the
filesystem you mount and can only be changed after mounting. When using
FAT, you have to give permissions as a mount option (if you don't want
everything to be owned root:root) because FAT doesn't know the concept
of file ownership.
J.
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