On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:10:53 +0100
Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Jochen,
> any other UNIX file system), these permissions are stored inside the
> filesystem you mount and can only be changed after mounting. When
Ah, that's now a lot clearer. I sort of understood what Magnus wrot
On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:53:44 +
Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Magnus,
> With ext3 on the USB HD you end up having to treat it just like a
> “static HD”, i.e. you have to make sure that the permissions on the
I wasn't aware of that. I don't know why it should be the case, b
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 d
Brad Rogers wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> 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.
>
> Changing the filesystem back to VFAT allows the writes to proceed
> without problem.
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