That seems to have worked, but it's pretty dirty considering my other drives are still owned by root but my normal user can write to them.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] omicron $ ll -h /mnt
total 23K
drwx------ 2 root root 72 Sep 15 01:25 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Jul 24 00:13 dvd
drwx------ 2 root root 72 Sep 15 01:25 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Nov 21 10:42 iso
drwxrwxrwx 9 root root 8.0K Jan 1 1970 media
drwxr-xr-x 3 omicron root 4.0K Dec 19 10:48 storage
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Oct 4 12:40 usbflash
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8.0K Dec 17 12:19 windows
And in my /etc/fstab:
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts>
<dump/pass>
/dev/hda7 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime
1 2
/dev/hda8 / reiserfs noatime
0 1
/dev/hda6 none swap sw
0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user
0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/dvd udf noauto,ro,user
0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0
0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/media vfat ro,umask=0
0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage ext3 noatime,users
0 2
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash auto umask=0,noauto,user
0 0
So why can I mount my USB key and write to that as a normal user without messing with
permissions, but I can write to a hard drive without fiddling around?
Also, if I change the ownership of the /mnt/storage dir, will I still be able to share
it over NFS?
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 21:30:04 -0500
"N. Owen Gunden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 02:01:31AM +0000, Dane Elwell wrote:
> > xerxes root # gvim /etc/fstab
> > xerxes root # umount /mnt/storage
> > xerxes root # mount /mnt/storage
> > xerxes root # exit
> > logout
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] omicron $ mkdir /mnt/storage/test
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/storage/test': Permission denied
>
> This is really simple, but did you try doing:
>
> # chown omicron /mnt/storage
>
> after the mount command?
>
> Of course, you may not want it owned by omicron, so you could also make
> it group writable and make sure omicron is in the proper group, or you
> could just make it world writable.
>
> The point is, don't forget about basic unix permissions :).
>
> - O
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