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mount directory ownership

Working right now on getting bsd and slack running on one box, so I want to share my home directory between the two. I want to do this by having a ~60GB ext2 partition and mounting that from each OS.

My home dir in slack is /home/myname, and (before mounting) I've set it to have the following permissions, ownership:

Code:

r-x --- --- root root

After mounting /dev/hda4 to /home/myname, I need it to have the following permissions so I can use it as my normal user:

Code:

rwx --- --- myname users(or_whatever)

So how do you go about doing that? Do you have to do something in fstab, or am I just going to have add a line in rc.d?

Here is my fstab (yeah, I'm shameful for not divvying up / :D):

Code:

/dev/hda5        swap            swap        defaults        0  0

/dev/hda6        /                ext2        defaults        1  1

/dev/hda4        /home/myname    ext2        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda3        /win            vfat        defaults        1  0

/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660    noauto,owner,ro  0  0

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner    0  0

devpts          /dev/pts        devpts      gid=5,mode=620  0  0

proc            /proc            proc        defaults        0  0

Thanks for your help.

I think this will create uid and gid problems. Is the uid and gid the same across the platforms?

Yes, I'm going to make them consistent. AFAIK, it should just be changing the uids and gids in BSD. In any event, I'm going to hold off on BSD until I get my slack in a stable condition.

Well for now I added this to /etc/rc.d/rc.M:

Code:

# mount the home partition

echo "Mounting home partition"

if mount -t ext2 /dev/hda4 /home/myname 2>>/root/homeMountLog

        then chown myname.users /home/myname; chmod 700 /home/myname;

        else date >>/root/homeMountLog; echo >>/root/homeMountLog; echo >>/root/homeMountLog;

fi

Ugly hack but it works. If anyone knows how to get fstab to do it, I'd appreciate it. nikm & everyone, thanks again.