Hi y'all

Can individual permissions be given for r/w access to a partition by using gid or/and uid in /etc/fstab?

What I wanted to do is give access to a partition (/dev/hdb5 - which is /home/data) only to a particular group of users belonging to a specified group (group id: 511) . Right now, the owner is "root" belonging to group "root". What I did was edit the fstab to read:

I only added the gid and umask values the rest is default RH9 install values.

This didn't work. At boot I got an error:
Doing a bit of digging in the logs I found out the problem is the GID entry. Ok, fine, I got rid of the gid and umask values and mounted the partition manually (mount /home/data) with no problems.

Is there any way to give rw access to a group using the GID? I keep getting invalid option (mount errors) everytime I use the GID in fstab.

Thanks.

As I understand it - yes. Try modifying the line to this:

/dev/hdb5 /home/data ext3 umask=002,gid=511,auto,rw 1 2



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Ok, thanks, I'll try that.

... BTW, anyone here can tell me what the numbers stand for at the end of a line in /etc/fstab - example: 1 1 or 0 0 ..etc ?

Cheers
//Canon