On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 02:01:01PM -0700, aldo maggi wrote: > i use debian sid > recently i resized /dev/hda1 (winxp preinstalled in the notebook) in > order to have more space available for my documents (my debian is on > /dev/hda4) > the new partition, /dev/hda5, should be mounted on > /home/myuser/documents, a dir which has permissions 770 and owner > myuser.myuser > i wrote a new record in /etc/fstab: > /dev/hda5 /home/myuser/documents ext3 defaults,user 0 0 > the problem is that any time i reboot, permission and ownership on > /home/myuser/documents are changed: root.root and 755, if i umount (as > root) the partition the previous settings are restored > (/home/myuser/documents 770 myuser.myuser) > i read carefully man mount but could not find a solution, i changed > several times the record relevant to /dev/hda5, now i have: > /dev/hda5 /home/myuser/documents ext3 > defaults,user,exec,dev,suid,grpid > but cannot get ownership myuser.myuser, permissions 770. > what should be the solution to this problem? (well, one could be lvm > .... but i'd like to avoid messing around with a kernel which is > already heavily patched) > thanks > aldo
beeing root, you have to mount the partition in /home/myuser/documents and then chown myuser:myuser /home/myuser/documents, the root of your filesystem. The a chmod 770 again. It should now be like that every time you will mount it. Cyprien -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
