Re: Adding a Hard Drive

Robert Newson <ReapNewsB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> When a partition is mounted onto a directory, the original directory with
> its permissions, ownership, etc is hidden and the root directory of the
> partition is then put in its place with its own permissions, ownership, etc
> - which is what you then see with ls, etc.

Ok.

> The 'user' option allows any user to mount the partition, but only the user
> who mounted it can umount it; the 'users' option is similar in that it
> allows any user to mount the partition, but it also allows ANY user OTHER
> than the one who mounted the partition to umount it.

You have to be in the group "disk" to mount and unmount the device, assuming
the /dev/hdb and associated files are all owned by "disk".

> # chmod 01777 /home/art/mnt

I presumed that mounting in /home/art/mnt, you wanted the contents of the root
directory to belong to "art".

If you want it to belong to root, then mount in /mnt/hdb or somewhere, and
create a directory /mnt/hdb/art with appropriate ownership and symlink in
/home/art.

Regards,

Mark.

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