Reiserfs partiion for ;Documents'
 

I've created a reiserfs paritiion on my main 500 gig drive, around 350 gigabytes, for documents, and videos and such, I created it with mkreiserfs and can mount it as root,

But what I need to do is mount it to users can read and write to it. Before I used vfat on my old 120 gig, and used the uid, umask option. but I dont think reiser supports this, does it? I tried gid=6 (for disk group) and that wasnt an allowed option.

Please assist, thank you.

Try the "users" option when mounting, and make sure permissions on the mounted folder (and the files on it) are such that normal people can access them

use group and user permissions
 

I've run into this same problem. If you go with the users option in the /etc/fstab then each user has to unmount then remount the medium just to get access. This can be a problem with a multiuser box. These are the steps I took instead to create a folder instead the whole drive access to users. Something like this:

1) Get to root access

2) Create a group called: "usrupgrades". After checking the group id number is available add the following line to the end of /etc/group

3) Add users who should have access in /etc/group

4) On the root / of the 350Gig make a directory called extraspace

5) Change the group to usrupgrades

7) tighten permissions to just the group

# sudo su
# emacs /etc/group
# usrupgrades:x:3300:root,myuser,myseconduser
# cd /mnt/my350gig
# mkdir extraspace
# chgrp usrupgrades extraspace
# chmod 770 extraspace

This gives owner full access, group all access, and everone else none. If you wanted everyone access, then:

# chmod 777 extraspace

-Jon