[TriLUG] FSTAB and mouting

[Jason Faulkner]

Aaron, I believe I said what you said in 3 lines on IRC :).

And people say *I* talk alot ;)

On 8/7/06, Aaron S. Joyner <aaron at joyner.ws> wrote:
> Roy Vestal wrote:
>
> > I want to mount /dev/hdc to /data1 with a group, music with rwx perms.
> > It's an ext3. I can't for the life of me find it in the stupid man pages.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I think you're trying to apply something you can do with a VFAT
> partition, to an ext3 partition.  If you check out the mount(8) man
> page, you'll see the uid= and gid= options under the fat filesystem
> section.  This sets the group which owns all files on the filesystem.
> Since there aren't file-specific ownership and group attributes, the
> filesystem driver uses a single user, as defined at mount time, via args
> passed to mount.  Because there are specific ownership and group
> attributes for each individual inode in the ext3 filesystem, there's not
> a natural way to "override" that with the mount command.  If you want a
> permanent way to change all files under /data1 after you mount it, you
> might consider something like this:
> find /data1 -type f -exec chmod g+rwx \{\} \;
> find /data1 -type f -exec chgrp $group \{\} \;
>
> Add "-type f" if you want to apply those rules only to the files (you
> probably don't, but it seemed worth mentioning).
>
> Aaron S. Joyner
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