User write permissions on ext3 partition

darin3200 · 05-29-2005, 11:29 PM

Ok, I have Gentoo on one partition of an 80gig hard drive (hda1), there is another 200gig partition on a different hard drive (hdb1). I want my normal user, darinf, to be able to write to hdb1.
So far root can read and write to this partition, but darinf can only read.
Here's the /etc/fstab entry

Code:

/dev/hdb1          /hd         ext3         rw,auto,user         0 1

I didn't want to type out /mnt/hd everytime so the mount point is just /hd.
I'm stuck on this one so any help is appreciated.
Thanks,

freakyg · 05-30-2005, 12:08 AM

Code:

/dev/hdb1   /hd   ext3   auto,owner,users,rw   0 1

try it like that..........

darin3200 · 05-30-2005, 12:17 AM

Thanks for the quick reply, but I'm still getting permission denied errors.

freakyg · 05-30-2005, 12:29 AM

what are the permissions for /hd??
are they set for user and group to read,write??

darin3200 · 05-30-2005, 08:27 AM

Yeah, that's what I missed.
I had permissions setup as 775 no 777, and then I didn't do it recursive either, so I fixed that with

Code:

chmod -R 777 /hd

and now it works
Thanks