user mounts of hotplug drives
Mark Knecht
markknecht at gmail.com
Wed Feb 23 00:04:02 UTC 2005
Hi,
I have a 1394 drive which I move between a number of systems. I've
got some funky ways of mounting it but I want to do it more naturally.
I'd like to just mount the drive under my home directory using the
mount command but it's not working due to permissions. I tried this:
/dev/sda1 /home/mark/Audio1 vfat
rw,noauto,user 0 0
/dev/sda2 /home/mark/Gigs ext3
rw,noauto,user 0 0
I'm able to mount this as a user, but the directory /home/mark/Gigs
which is owned by mark:mark before the mount, switches ownership to
root:root when mark mounts the drive and I cannot write to the top of
the drive. I can write to the first directory 'Gigs' on the 1394
drive, but not to the top.
How can I change this fstab entry to allow me to directly mount the
drive in my home directory and have write permission? I'm guessing
that I must tell the system in fstab to give user mark write access
but I cannot figure out what the syntax is.
Also, if it's any different for vfat vs. ext3 please point that out.
Thanks,
Mark
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