Re: Adding a Hard Drive

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 19:43:14 +0000, Arthur Buse wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, graham <graham.marsden1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

>>I would not chown the volume.
>>The drive is correctly owned by root. All that is required is to create a
>>directory owned by the user and group users.
>
> If I recall correctly, I created a directory owned by the user and
> when I (or init), as root, mounted the partition on it, it was then
> owned by root.
>
> I think Mark Hobley's symlink suggestion is the way to go.
>
>>Oh! and the line in fstab should be 'default' not 'users'
>
> I think if it was 'default' not 'users' then I would not be able to
> mount it as the user. BIHBWB (but I have been wrong before).
>
>>Changing the name of the volume to something more sensible is optional.
>
> I called it 'mnt' as a constant reminder to myself that it was on a
> SATA hard drive which I might remove later.

Ok! Some info from my box.
/etc/fstab : /dev/hdb6 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2
ls -l /home :
total 2
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 104 2005-11-28 10:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 33 root root 784 2005-11-30 08:31 ..
drwxr-xr-x 33 graham users 1688 2005-11-30 09:54 graham

This works perfectly using suse 10, mounts at boot and accessable by me.
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