On Mi, 21 mar 12, 16:29:45, Camaleón wrote: > > For static mount points, this is usually done/set in "/etc/fstab". You > basically need two things: > > - Set the right permission options for the mount point so users can read/ > write/whatever > > - Create a mount point in your system with the right permissions From Linux' point of view this is not correct: # umount /home/amp/big # ls -ld /home/amp/big drwx------ 2 root root 4096 mai 16 2011 /home/amp/big # mount /dev/sda6 /home/amp/big # ls -l /home/amp/big total 16 [...] drwxrwxr-x 6 amp amp 67 mai 22 2010 burn drwx------ 3 amp amp 4096 feb 4 12:06 image drw------- 2 root root 6 nov 7 16:36 lost+found [...] As you can see, the permissions of the mount point have no influence on the permissions of the files on the partition. This is true for about any filesystem that is more or less native to Linux (ext*, xfs, etc.). You can set permissions via mount options (and fstab) for fat and ntfs, but just because they don't support Unix style permissions. @Bret Please tell us more about the filesystem on the partition (and mount options used) and who should have read and/or write access to it. Kind regards, Andrei P.S. I just figured, if it is likely that the filesystem is not accessible sometimes (e.g. removable drive) it might be a good idea to remove write permissions from the mountpoint so that you get an error instead of writing files to the partition holding that mountpoint and then wondering where your files are gone when the filesystem is properly mounted. -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature