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A.I. BOT

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Registered: 2007-04-01

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[SOLVED] FSTab + Mounting a Writable Partition ...

I made a new 7GB partition for storing my movies, pictures, music etc ... in /etc/fstab I have:

/dev/sda2 /mnt/fl reiserfs rw,user,noatime 0 1

It doesent let me write to it, I get a Access Denied error in Konq. Any ideas on why it wont let me write to it?

Thanks.

Last edited by A.I. BOT (2007-07-31 15:47:06)

nomind

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Registered: 2007-07-28

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Re: [SOLVED] FSTab + Mounting a Writable Partition ...

If I am not mistaken, the "user" option merely allows non-privileged users to mount the drive. It does not control access permissions. For that, you have two options.

You can either change the directory permissions of the mount-point to make it accessible to all users, or you could modify the umask value (see man fstab for more info on umask).

EDIT: It seems the umask option does not apply to all filesystems. Hence, changing the directory permissions of /mnt/fl seems to be the most secure method.

Last edited by nomind (2007-07-31 04:12:51)

A.I. BOT

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Re: [SOLVED] FSTab + Mounting a Writable Partition ...

EDIT: Nevermind its a corruption ... attempting to rebuild tree.

Last edited by A.I. BOT (2007-07-31 07:41:56)