Re: cant i mount fixed drive with write access??

["Mumia W.." <paduille.4061.mumia.w+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 10/12/2007 05:03 AM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote:
> P Kapat wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been banging my head for quite a few hours now. Can't I mount a
> > fixed (internal SATA) drive with write access as a normal user? Here
> > is the relevant line from fstab:
> >
> > /dev/sdb1       /media/backup   ext3    user,noauto,rw        0       0
> >
> > $ ls -l /media/backup
> > drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 03:12 /media/backup
> >
> > $ mount /dev/sdb1
> > $ ls -l /media/backup
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-10-12 03:12 /media/backup
> >
> > Why am I loosing the write access??
>
> Maybe, it's because the directory /media/backup is owned by root?
> In order to allow mounting for normal users, I suggest the package pmount.

He only needs to change the permissions on /media/backup *after* he's 
mounted the partition.