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Old 04-15-2005, 12:37 AM   #1
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Mount ext3 hard drive with umask=0


I have a hard drive that is formatted with ext3 filesystem .. It has nothing on it right now as I would like to just use it as storage. It is one big partition.

I would like to have regular users be able to read and write to it but I cannot figure out how to set it to umask=0 (like you can with ntfs or fat partitions in fstab). ext3 does not have that option (yes, I checked the man pages).

What is the option to include in fstab to make ext3 drives read/write to anyone that mounts it?
 
Old 04-15-2005, 12:57 AM   #2
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nevermind

just chmod the mountpoint....
really should go to bed after that mistake.
 
Old 04-16-2005, 06:39 AM   #3
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yeah, you don't need to add "umask=0"
 
Old 12-28-2006, 06:45 AM   #4
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i mounted my ext3 partitions with no umask (it is not possible to give it anyway) and chmod worked out. However if i create a new directory now it will have drwxr-xr-x which means i cant write in to it
How can i mount ext3 so that any newly created directory will have permissions like :drwxrwxrwx ?
 
Old 12-28-2006, 06:28 PM   #5
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don't think "chmod" mount point is a good idea, try with -
mount -o user,rw /dev/partition /mnt/somewhere

Last edited by ygloo; 12-28-2006 at 07:01 PM.
 
Old 12-29-2006, 11:35 AM   #6
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check out "sticky bit"

http://www.unixguide.net/hp/faq/5.1.9.shtml
 
Old 09-13-2008, 07:41 PM   #7
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Quote:
Originally Posted by trpn View Post
just chmod the mountpoint....
It's true.

Code:
sudo chmod -R a+xrw [directory] or [file]

I am in this thread for the same trpn's reason.
Though very late, I add the solution for others who visit this thread.
 
  


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