hi,
i would like to create a partition to store my files because mi root partition is becoming too small... so i created a partition with the utility cfdisk (ext2), edited the fstab file, but:

1) i can mount it only as root
2)it mounts the partition in read only.

how can i manage to mount in read/write the partition using a normal account?

thanks

matteo

what command did you use to mount your partition?

did you allow for the partition to be mounted by 'users' rather than owner and to be mounted 'rw' (read, write) rather than 'ro' (read only) in the fstab file also?

i simply use mount /device /destination.... the real problem is that the partition is mounted in read only!

What filesystem did you use to format the partition?
What permissions are assigned to the mount point?
Post the fstab entry for that partition.

ok it's better if i told you step by step what i did:
1)root console --> cfdisk --> "type" of partition Linux (i suppose it's ext2..?) --> write.
2)edited fstab... here you got what i wrote

/dev/hda7 /mnt/dati ext2 noauto,user 0 0

now when i mount (mount /mnt/dati) i get

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda7,
or too many mounted file system

.....what can i do?!?!

p.s. i get this error both with normal user and root

/dev/hda7 /mnt/dati ext2 noauto,user 0 0

changing 'user' to 'users' will allow you to acces the partition when not logged in as root.

add 'rw' to the end of those options to make it look like this:

noauto,users,rw

that will allow you to access the partition as read+write

its possible you could leave the fs type as auto rather than ext2 and let it auto-detect the fs type... but i could be wrong about that. seems like i remember reading something about that possibly messing up file systems it was a monday or the date was divisible by two, or some other esoteric reason.

best to make the other changes i posted above, reboot, and try it again.

might be helpful if you posted your entire /etc/fstab file too.

edit: and just to be sure, you have created the directory you're trying to mount the partition on, right? /mnt/dati (or whatever) is actually there, within the /mnt directory? the mount command doesn't create that for you...

ok i will try to make these modifies, in the meantime, thanks a lot for your help!

It doesn't appear like you formatted the partition.
Once you have created the partition you need to format it with a file system. To format an ext3 file system:

mke2fs -j /dev/hda7

Then your /etc/fstab file should be:
/dev/hda7 /mnt/dati ext3 noauto, users 0 0

The difference between the options user and users is:
user - Allows an ordinary user to mount the file system but only that user that mounted can unmount.

users - Allows any user to mount and unmount the file system.

See man mount for additional information.