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I'm kinda at a loss here as to what to do. I'm running SuSE 9.1 Pro. I have a partition on a standalone blank drive. It's formated, etc. I would like to be able to mount the drive and then write to it as a user and not have to 'su' into root. I added the 'users' option to fstab which seems to address the mounting issue. But, I'm still not able to write to it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've used RedHat, Debian, Slackware and Mandrake and I've never seen an
/etc/fstab file like that. Perhaps a SuSE fellow will come along and help. I do
see that /dev/cdrecorder has the ro (read only) switch. It may be as simple as
adding rw (read write) to those lines like this
but I can't tell you for sure. That will not hurt anything if you want to try it.
You might want to create a backup file named /etc/fstab.old and if it doesn't
allow you to write after you reboot, you can then delete the new file and then
rename /etc/fstab.old to /etc/fstab once again.
And there is a difference between user (the one currently logged in) and users
(any user on the system). If this box is standalone and you are the single user
it really doesn't matter - just another customization offered by GNU/Linux.
I was reading the linux from scratch manual and came across 'chmod a+wt'. Applied it to my partition and all is well. Thanks for the look over, Chinaman.
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