Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 19:52, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> I seem to be hitting dead ends and I'm beginning to think this isn't as
> easy as I first thought.
>
> I am putting together a box for unattended operation. I want to mount
> an ext3 partition into the main user's home directory, I want this to
> occur automatically when all file systems are mounted at system start
> via /etc/fstab and I want the partition and all its contents owned by
> that user. The user will not be logging in as the account is used to
> run a cron job.
>
> This seems easy enough if I make the partition vfat with the uid and
> gid mount options, but I lose the journalling and permissions
> capabilities of ext3. Surely, there is a way to do this or a very good
> technical explanation why it can't. ;-)
>
> /
> +home
> +user
> +partition <= owned by user like any other directory
>
> Thanks!
>
IIUC, your problem might be as simple as mounting it with user or users
option . From the manual of mount
user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. The
name of the mounting user is written to mtab so that he
can unmount the file system again. This option implies
the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden
by subsequent options, as in the option line
user,exec,dev,suid).
users Allow every user to mount and unmount the file system.
This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev
(unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the
option line users,exec,dev,suid).
So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like
/dev/sda1 /home/user/partition auto user,auto,exec 0 0
The above line is untested so try it only after reading all the relevant
manual pages.
hth
raju
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