Re: Adding a Hard Drive

Arthur Buse <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have added a hard drive to my system to give me more storage.
> I want to mount a partition to /home/art/mnt so I do not get a lot of
> disruption if I just remove the drive again sometime. Is this
> possible?

Yes, of course.

> I have added a line
> /dev/sda6 /home/art/mnt ext3 users 0 0
> to /etc/fstab

> When the partition is mounted, /home/art/mnt is drwxr-xr-x and owned
> by root, I can't write to it without being root.

I had the same problem, the other week.

chown art /home/art/mnt
chgrp art /home/art/mnt

I would mount the hard drive under /volumes/volumename, create a folder on it
/art then a symlink to it in /home/art/volumename.

Regards,

Mark.

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