On Tuesday 17 October 2006 08:57, Thufir wrote: > How can I fix line 10 of /etc/fstab so that, like /mnt/windows, it's > just automagically available for read and write?
[snip] > 9 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows > vfat users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0 > 10 #/dev/hdb4 > /mnt/gentoo ext3 users,owner,rw,umask=000 0 0 11 The short answer is that you don't. The long answedr is that you can, if you are willing to change permissions. Your /mnt/windows is a vfat filesystem, which has no idea of unix permissions. But it's mounted on a Unix system which must have permissions, so the kernel takes a default and applies the default to every file and directory Your /mnt/gentoo is ext3 which DOES understand permissions, so therefore the system will use the permissions and owner/group that is already on that filesystem. You can't override this, and neither do you want to. The defaults you are using mostly do not apply to ext3 either, check the man page for mount for valid options to ext3 and ext2. If you are willing to change owner and permissions on all the files on /dev/hdb4 then you can do so and they will be available when mounted, but you cannot arbitrarily suspend existing permissions with just a mount operation. alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
