fstab help, maybe?

Pi Man · 12-22-2004, 04:32 PM

I have 2 external USB hard drives: /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, both of which have only one partition.

I'm on SuSE 9.2 and want read and write access for one specific user (the only one other than root). I added this to fstab:

Code:

/dev/sda1            /media/sda1          auto       rw,user,exec,noauto,suid,dev,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0
/dev/sdb1            /media/sdb1          auto       rw,user,exec,noauto,suid,dev,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0

Here's the line from passwd that describes that user:

Code:

owner:x:1000:100:Name Here:/home/Owner:/bin/bash

The partitions are formatted with ext2, I think. Maybe reisers. I don't know for sure. Unfortunately, when I try to mount either one of them, I get:

Code:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
       or too many mounted file systems

Auto should cover the wrong fs type, and I know there's no bad superblock, and I have very few file systems mounted, so I must have a bad option. Any ideas dudes and dudettes?

Thanks for your help.

JunctaJuvant · 12-22-2004, 07:02 PM

Are the uid and guid options supported? In the mount manual I don't see support for those options under ext2 or ext3 or reiserfs, only other filesystems. Have you tried mounting the drives as root, without those options?

Andrew Benton · 12-22-2004, 07:09 PM

Did you modprobe usb-storage (or whatever the module is called) before you tried to mount them?

Pi Man · 12-23-2004, 12:15 AM

Thanks so much! I had no idea uid and gid weren't supported for some fs types. I could have sworn they were in my old fstab when I was still on 8.2 and working just fine. Oh well. Glad I got it working now.

Thanks JunctaJuvant.