Mount ext3 hard drive with umask=0

trpn · 04-15-2005, 01:37 AM

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?

trpn · 04-15-2005, 01:57 AM

nevermind

just chmod the mountpoint....
really should go to bed after that mistake.

munchkins · 04-16-2005, 07:39 AM

yeah, you don't need to add "umask=0"

sagar.1986 · 12-28-2006, 07:45 AM

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 ?

ygloo · 12-28-2006, 07:28 PM

don't think "chmod" mount point is a good idea, try with -
mount -o user,rw /dev/partition /mnt/somewhere

ygloo · 12-29-2006, 12:35 PM

check out "sticky bit"

http://www.unixguide.net/hp/faq/5.1.9.shtml

masteryuri · 09-13-2008, 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by trpn

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.