How to mount a partition as root and make it world read-write?

[VJ]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: How to mount a partition as root and make it world read-write?


> VJ wrote:
> >      The method you suggest was known to me, but the thing is i do not
want
> > to execute anything apart from using fstab file. If everything else
fails, I
> > will use this method as the last resort.
>
> There are two phases to getting what you want:
>
> 1. Preparing the filesystem, and
> 2. Setting up the fstab file.
>
> If the filesystem is prepared properly, the following fstab file entry
will work:
>
> /dev/hdh3 /tmp ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> Now, could you run those commands and show us the output?
>
> Paul.
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under root login, /etc/fstab contains the following line (i changed your
ext3 to ext2)
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/dev/hdh3               /t            ext2      defaults        1 2
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then root mounted /t
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[root at dxr ~]# mount /t

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under mythtv user
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[mythtv at dxr work]$ mkdir /t/t
mkdir: cannot create directory `/t/t': Permission denied
[mythtv at dxr work]$

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Regards from
VJ