Hi,

I have had Simply Mepis installed for
several days now.

Can someone tell me how i can mount a ext3
partition that i have created on a second HD,
with read *and* write permissions?

Here is the original fstab. The partition
in question is hdb7.

# Static entries below, do not use 'users' option in this area
/dev/hda8 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda6 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
# Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0
/dev/floppy /mnt/floppy vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0

Here is my *guess* at how to mount it with read/write permission.

# Static entries below, do not use 'users' option in this area
/dev/hda8 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda6 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 3
# Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0
/dev/floppy /mnt/floppy vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0

With the fstab amended this way, when i try to save a
text file from within the text editor, called
Query_01 to hdb7, i get the error:

"The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to file:/mnt/hdb7/Query_01.
Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available."

what is it i have to do so that i am able to
read/write to hdb7?

All help welcome.

the mount looked fine from the start. this is an ext3 filesystem, i.e. a native linux one, so will always be bound by standard permissions issues from day 1. you should just need to use chmod / chown to allow users to write there.

After you modified fstab, did you run "mount -a" as root?

You can try the command line like "mount /dev/hdb7 /mnt/hdb7" first before modifying the fstab file

Hi,

Thank you for your response.
I apologise for not making myself clear.

I would like to mount hdb7 at Boot time, Ready to be written to,
just like my 'Home' & 'Root' partitions.

Is this possible, If so, how?
Or is this to difficult for a newbie?

I have tried 'mount -a' (as root) and still i can't write
to the partition.

Using the second fstab (amended by me) puts a
HD icon for hdb7 on the Desktop, and is shown
as mounted,

Further help is appreciated.

a drive will mount if it's not got the "noauto" option. but this is not related to what seems to be the real problem of permissions, which i've clearly already covered.

Can't you just put the commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (at least that's the Slackware place you put setup commands)

I'm not sure if I'm really right...