Richard Owlett: > > My original question had (apparently incorrectly assume that partitions > handled user/group/world permissions in the same manner as file systems.
Even if you found a solution to your problem, this sentence does not
make much sense and I still assume you are confused about a few basics.
Hard disks / SSDs are usualy split into one or more partitions. A
partition is nothing more than a slice of a disk with a given size. It
does not have any permissions except for the permissions of the block
device in /dev that represents it (e.g. /dev/sda1).
Filesystems organize storage space into files and directories. They are
often (but not necessarily) created inside partitions. Since there is
usually a 1:1 relation between partitions and filesystems, many people
use both terms interchangeably but that is technically wrong. You cannot
mount a partition, only a filesystem (which, again, may or may not be
inside a partition).
J.
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