Re: Mount ext partition into user dir with user permissions (SOLVED)

2002-05-05 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Michael, > What happens if you mount it, chown -R user.user /mount_point, umount, > and mount again? Yes the mountpoint is owned by user.user but after mounting it was always changed to be owned by root.root I finally worked it out I think. AFTER mounting the partition (as root) THEN do the

Re: Mount ext partition into user dir with user permissions

2002-05-05 Thread Peter Kiem
Hi Gordon, > Try uid=,gid= Yeah I tried that but that is for FAT partitions and not ext3. Regards, +---+-+ | Peter Kiem| E-Mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | Zordah IT | Mobile: +61 0414 724 766| | IT Consultan

Re: Mount ext partition into user dir with user permissions

2002-04-29 Thread Gordon Messmer
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 00:02, Peter Kiem wrote: > Tried to do something which I thought would be really simple, mount a > partition into a user's dir to be owned by that user. > > e.g. mount /dev/hdb1 /home/user/data ... > I've tried combinations of parameters in fstab like "owner" and "user" but

Re: Mount ext partition into user dir with user permissions

2002-04-29 Thread Michael Fratoni
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 29 April 2002 03:02 am, Peter Kiem wrote: > Tried to do something which I thought would be really simple, mount a > partition into a user's dir to be owned by that user. > > e.g. mount /dev/hdb1 /home/user/data > > where /home/user/data is a

Mount ext partition into user dir with user permissions

2002-04-28 Thread Peter Kiem
Tried to do something which I thought would be really simple, mount a partition into a user's dir to be owned by that user. e.g. mount /dev/hdb1 /home/user/data where /home/user/data is an empty directory owned by user.user No matter what I do when the partition is mounted it is always owned a