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Old 01-11-2006, 05:49 AM   #16
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The fstab man page says that the option to allow users to mount the partition is "user" not "users".

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Exerpt from man fstab

The fourth field, (fs_mntops), describes the mount options associated with the filesystem.

It is formatted as a comma separated list of options. It contains at least the type of mount plus any additional options appropriate to the filesystem type. For documentation on the available options for non- nfs file systems, see mount(8). For documentation on all nfs-specific options have a look at nfs(5). Common for all types of file system are the options ‘‘noauto'' (do not mount when "mount -a" is given, e.g., at boot time), ‘‘user'' (allow a user to mount), and ‘‘owner'' (allow device owner to mount), and ‘‘_netdev'' (device requires network to be available). The ‘‘owner'' and ‘‘_netdev'' options are Linux-specific. For more details, see mount(8).
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Notice that I had to check the man page. I've been bitten with the "user" or "users" mistake in the past.

Also, even if the partition is mounted correctly there could still be problems with permissions on files in the partition's file system. In other words the files in the partition may not allow a normal user to view them. This could be due to account ownership combined with group ownership combined with restrictive file permissions.

If the file system is mounted at /mnt/Qfireball then issue the ls -l command on the files in the partition. Example:

ls -l /mnt/Qfireball

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Old 01-11-2006, 05:54 AM   #17
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Ok. I think i have something. When I boot up in verbose mode I get a message saying that initaling file systems has faisled as gid=100 is not supported by the kernel, which would account for the permission errors?.
Thankyou,
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Old 01-11-2006, 05:58 AM   #18
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Old 01-11-2006, 06:38 AM   #19
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users is a valid option also. "user" allows any user to mount a drive, but only that user can umount the drive. "Users" allows any user to mount a drive and then any user can umount it after. Try just deleting the gid option as it is not strictly neccessary just a habit of my own I seem to be passing on. Also this is a filesystem specific option soit's probably the filesystem doesn't support this option so it's worthless having in fstab

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