Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 11:06 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:/dev/sda5 /owlett ext2 rw,users,execWill doing "chmod -R 777 /owlett" allow all users of any Debian install having the edited /etc/fstab have unrestricted access to all files and folders on that partition?I can't say anything about your fstab entry, but at least chmod -R 777 will permit the needed permissions, but then the permissions are the same for other installs too.
I'm not sure "chmod -R 777" alone gives my desired result.I'll have do see if I can DUPLICATE FROM MEMORY situation which led to question.
IIRC I had created some folders and files on a partition as root. Later realized I wanted read/write access as a normal user. As root did chmod -R 777 which gave me desired access as normal user. Later, for reasons I don't recall, I created more files as root. Those files DID NOT allow write access to a normal user.The question has become somewhat academic as another reply reminded me I could simply use a fat format. DUH! ;/ Especially as that's how I'm currently sharing some text files with my Windows machine.
Thanks.