How to mount a filesystem with ownership rights

C M Reinehr cmrNO
Mon May 17 11:41:39 PDT 2004


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?
> 

What type of file system are you mounting?  What are the permissions & 
ownership of the mount point?  What are the permissions & ownership of the 
root directory that you are mounting?  What is the relevant line in your 
fstab?

cmr
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