Hi all.

I'm trying to mount an ext3 drive as my user. I can get this to work by adding the "user" option to mount or fstab.
But if I look at the permissions of the directory, the owner and group is root meaning that I can not create files in the directory.
I've looked through the mount man page and not found a way to do this, so sorry if this is a stupid question.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, because it's really inconvenient to work as root all the time when working in this directory.

Thanks
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I'm not sure, but maybe adding umask=000 next to user in /etc/fstab (seperated by a comma so user,umask=000) should mount the drive with the permisions 777 so should be writeable by everyone, otherwise you can mount it with gid or uid options I think, I can't really remember so try google or wait for another reply

For security reasons, it would be best to mount the drive specificly for the user you want to have access, i.e.

/dev/hda5 /mnt/D vfat rw,user,uid=1000,gid=100 0 0

in your /etc/fstab .... noauto is another good security idea, but if your lazy like me you wont use it, heh...

DrS

All of that would work perfectly if the Avatar33 was mounting an vfat or fat disk. However, he is asking about ext3 :-)

With ext3, /mnt/extDrive will get the permissions and ownership of the root of the floppy. So you first need to mount the floppy, then assign ownership of the root of the floppy to you (using chown), and then all will be fine.

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

Dunno if I read that wrong or there was something in my coffee or what...

So what tom said, as root do something like:

chmod 777 /dev/hdb1
mkdir /stuff
and in fstab, /dev/hdb1 /stuff ext3 auto,user,owner,rw 0 0

then do mount -a

if this I wrong I may have to shoot myself

DrS

This will add nothing, since mount is suid root.
the owner option allows the owner of the device file (i.e. /dev/hdb1) to mount the volume. So in order for this to be useful, you have to do a chown on /dev/hdb1. However, since you also specified user, which allows any user to mount the volume, the owner option doesn't add much.

To make matters worse, all of this still won't guarantee that the user is able to write in /stuff. For that, you need an addtional chown on /stuff, after mounting it.

Please do be carefull with firearms ;-)

Groetjes,

Kees-Jan

You are absolutely right. I will use a rope.

DrS