[HLUG] mounting EXT2

[John Kneale]

Hi
The 'defaults' option includes rw and auto, ie the partition will be mounted
at boot time with write access.
Can you mount it successfully as root? If you can then I don't understand
what's going wrong at boot. If you can't is there some error message in the
dmesg log?

John Kneale


>
> Hi all
>
> I had the following line in my /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/hda14  /mnt/hd/MAGIC-STORE vfat  uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=133
>  1  0
>
> but I just converted the partition to EXT2, and now the line is
>
> /dev/hda14  /mnt/hd/MAGIC-STORE ext2  defaults  1  0
>
> but now I get read-only access to the partition; one way around
> it is to change the "defaults" option to "noauto,user" but then
> I will have to manually mount the partition every time.
>
> So is there any way to mount it automatically at boot time &
> also give me read-write access??
>
> I tried reading the man pages for "mount" & "tune2fs" but failed
> to notice anything helpful, may be I missed something......
>
> Thanks
> Emon
>
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