How do I mount a volume with specific permissions?

Silver565 · 04-21-2014, 12:37 AM

Hi Guys

I'm attempting to mount a second disk to my Ubuntu 13.10 virtual machine differently:

Mount the disk giving the user www-data:www-data full write permissions
Mount the volume under /media/directory rather than /media/username/directory

Can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm attempting to setup an OwnCloud server with a seperate data directory. The catch is that the www-data user needs to have full ownership of the folder(It works whenever I assign permissions to a folder on my root drive. It just doesn't work on any folder that I put onto a separate disk)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

yzT! · 04-21-2014, 01:48 AM

1st: http://superuser.com/questions/32041...ic-user-rights
2nd: you can mount a volume wherever you want, you're not forced to do it at /media/username/...

rknichols · 04-21-2014, 09:10 AM

The permissions on the mount point directory are irrelevant. What you want to set are the ownership and permissions for the root inode of the mounted filesystem. Just do that while the filesystem is mounted, and the settings will persist. This of course assumes a filesystem that supports UNIX-like ownership and permissions. For filesystems like FAT and VFAT that do not support such permissions, the owning UID and GID and the permission masks are set as mount options. See "man 8 mount" for details.

jefro · 04-21-2014, 03:29 PM

May have to set a script that also chmod's what you want to be sure after mount. (not sure of what the OP has)

Silver565 · 04-24-2014, 06:01 PM

Hi guys

thank you very much!

I've set the volume to auto mount under /mnt/OwnCloud. I then did a chown to that folder which seemed to do the trick. Editing the fstab was all I really needed to do!

Thanks again!