Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

[Wackojacko <wackojacko32@ntlworld.com>]

Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > > 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.
> > That will not fix his problem.  Since it will automatically mount at
> > boot, it will be mounted by root.  That means that only root will be
> > able to unmount it.  Of course, this will not fix any of the ownership
> > issues.
>
> Thanks Roberto! I use
>
> /dev/sda1       /home/user/partition  auto    user,noauto,exec     0      0
>
> to allow the users to mount the USB drive. I did not think of all the 
> consequences of changing noauto to auto.
>
> sorry for the noise.
>
> raju
What about the uid,gid options in mount.  my fstab for a vfat shared 
windows partition is

/dev/sda6       /mnt/Windowsdat vfat 
rw,user,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=002        0       2

and it's mounted a boot with user and group ownership I want.

These options are not available on all fs types I think.

HTH

Wackojacko