[SLUG] OOps fstab

john at johnallsopp.co.uk john at johnallsopp.co.uk
Sun Apr 16 17:53:17 BST 2006


> What determines the owner of my new partitions. My first work
> partition is owned by me, these new ones are owned by root, how can I
> change that? fstab doesn't seem to control that.

I thought mkfs would work but it's not allowing me (permissions) to
create a file system. I can't access /dev/sda from fdisk unless I'm
root. So I can't create partitions unless I'm root, and I can't create
a filesystem unless I'm root, so where do I get to say I own the thing
.. in the mount, I'd have thought, which is fstab, which doesn't seem
to provide that facility.

J




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