thank you Andrew for your very clever suggestion. i just forgot to change the ownership of the newpart_dir.
unfortunately, this procedure does not seem to work properly in my case : /dev/sdb5 is located on an external HDD. chown user:group newpart_dir works instantaneously and perfectly, but the writing is still not valid by user. because the HDD is external, is there some special uid:gid allowing anybody to access it, like an anonymous connection ? normally, we do not need to reboot to take it in account, do we ? Marc Le jeu 20/02/2003 à 17:37, Cannon, Andrew a écrit : > Do you want to own this as root or change ownership to the user? > > I've created partitions as root and then I use the command > > chown user:group directory > > to change ownership. The user can then write to the directory. > > If you want to have read/write permissions but still retain ownership by > root (say to prevent deletion) then: > > chmod 766 directory (for rwx as root and rw for group and global) > > Hope this helps > > Andrew > > -----Original Message----- > From: marc dobler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 8:31 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: root created partition not writable by user > > > hello ! > > i've just created a ext2 partition as root. > but as normal user, no way to write in it ... > > basically, mounting by user is : > > /dev/sdb5 /mnt/newpart ext2 rw,user 0 0 > > i tried many options, > but no way to WRITE as normal user on the newpart ... > > what is wrong ? > what are the good options to add ??? > > thank you for help > > Marc > > > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > > *********************************************************************************** > NNC Limited > Booths Hall > Chelford Road > Knutsford > Cheshire > WA16 8QZ > > Country of Registration: United Kingdom > Registered Number: 1120437 > > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify > the NNC system manager by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *********************************************************************************** > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
