Hello evbdy,

I'm new to linux.My fstab(for the device files hda1 and hda2 which i'm trying to mount) looks like this...


/dev/hda2 /home/abhishek/music auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /home/abhishek/miscellany ext2 rw,suid,dev,exec,auto,user,async.
0 0


I want to mount hda1 and hda2 to the mount points mentioned above automatically at boot time with write-permission enabled to the user 'abhishek'.....

For the above fstab, at boot time,mounting fails...
Any suggestions..?

i'm not sure of the EXACT workings of this but i think it should auto-mount if you change the 0 0 to 1 1.


There are three ways to give that user permissions i think, some sloppy and some tidy

You could make them belong to that user using a "chown -R USER /DIRECTORY" command.

or... you could make a group for all of the files and directories and make that user a member of it.

or... ... you could set permissions so that everybody can access those files with "chmod -R 777 /DIRECTORY".


It's really up to you and the way you want your system to work. The last one is obviously not as secure as it will allow anyone to get at those files.

I tried chown but it says ...

changing ownership of /home/abhishek/...: operation not permitted

So it mounts to the directory but doesnt let me (as root) change the ownership ...

Those last two columns have nothing to do with auto mounting, see this for some info.

I have read man pages for fstab and mount but am still facing probs...

My fstab for the concerned files...

/dev/hda2 /home/abhishek/music auto rw,auto,user,async,exec 0 0
/dev/hda1 / home/abhishek/miscellany e xt3 rw,auto,user,async,exec 0 0

wrote the above fstab after reding the posts but to no avail

2 probs:
1. At boot time it says this-> Mounting other filesystem: wrong fs_type,bad option,bad superblock for /dev/hda1 ...[FAILED]

2. Still no write-permission to a user (i login as 'abhishek') despite the option 'user' in the 4th field of fstab (for both the files)


Plea: Kindly help...