Re: mount a partition on a dir in the home of a user
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 02:01:01PM -0700, aldo maggi wrote:
> i use debian sid
> recently i resized /dev/hda1 (winxp preinstalled in the notebook) in
> order to have more space available for my documents (my debian is on
> /dev/hda4)
> the new partition, /dev/hda5, should be mounted on
> /home/myuser/documents, a dir which has permissions 770 and owner
> myuser.myuser
> i wrote a new record in /etc/fstab:
> /dev/hda5 /home/myuser/documents ext3 defaults,user 0 0
> the problem is that any time i reboot, permission and ownership on
> /home/myuser/documents are changed: root.root and 755, if i umount (as
> root) the partition the previous settings are restored
> (/home/myuser/documents 770 myuser.myuser)
> i read carefully man mount but could not find a solution, i changed
> several times the record relevant to /dev/hda5, now i have:
> /dev/hda5 /home/myuser/documents ext3
> defaults,user,exec,dev,suid,grpid
> but cannot get ownership myuser.myuser, permissions 770.
> what should be the solution to this problem? (well, one could be lvm
> .... but i'd like to avoid messing around with a kernel which is
> already heavily patched)
> thanks
> aldo
beeing root, you have to mount the partition in /home/myuser/documents
and then chown myuser:myuser /home/myuser/documents, the root of your
filesystem. The a chmod 770 again. It should now be like that every
time you will mount it.
Cyprien
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