mounting ext3 disk with uid=nobody,gid=nogroup

[Sean O'Connell]

Joseph Mack NA3T stated:
> (linux, 2,4,24, libc-2.1.3, mount-2.11z)
> 
> I want to samba export some disk realestate so that windows machines have
> a scratch area. The ownership needs to be nobody.nogroup (although I
> don't remember why). If I have a vfat fs I can mount it with the following
> entry in /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/hda6   /win   vfat noauto,uid=nobody,gid=nogroup   0 0
> 
> My fs are all ext3, rather than vfat and I find that if the fstype is ext3
> it won't allow the uid (or gid) option. Even
> 
> /dev/hda6  /scratch ext3 uid=root
> 
> is not accepted. man 8 mount says that the uid,gid options are available
> for all fstype (at least by my reading).
> 
> There is little help in google.
> 
> I can solve the problem by making loopfs on the ext3 partition and
> formatting it as an msdosfs and mounting it as vfat, but is seems an awful
> cludge.
> 
> Is this the best I can do?

Why not just create a subdirectory with the required permissions and
export that directory to your windows machine.

Sean
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