How to mount a filesystem with ownership rights

kwall@kurtwerks.com kwall
Mon May 17 11:41:37 PDT 2004


Feigning erudition, Collins wrote:
% I've created a separate partition for my daughter's mp3 collection,
% and this is mounted via fstab to /home/cecilia/mp3.
% 
% The only problem is, she can't created new directories.  Each time I
% have to su, mkdir, and chown.
% 
% How can I automated the mount and get the correct permissions?

I recommend the "user,auto" options in /etc/fstab.

Kurt
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