[HLUG] mounting EXT2

[Tom English]

What about using "defaults,user,owner"

This should set the partition up to mount at boot, and should allow anyone else to mount it aswell.

Also, mount the partition as root, then have a look at the permissions and see if they need changing.

I've had a similar problem before with an ext2 partition, but never solved it.

I have an extra ext3 partition on my laptop though which is mounted rw as /home, and permissions are all okay.

Tom.

----- Original Message -----
From: Kneale <sue.kneale at virgin.net>
Date: Monday, January 16, 2006 10:15 pm
Subject: Re: [HLUG] mounting EXT2

> 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 
> understandwhat'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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