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fstab woes . . .
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Clifton)
Sat Nov 14 00:03:38 1998
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 00:09:31 -0500
From: Jeremy Clifton <fireproof@geocities.com>
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OK, I hope this hasn't been answered before. I tried to search the
archives and it didn't work.
This is the deal:
My old printer died. Since I'm poor, my parents gave me a printer.
Unfortunately, it's one of those daggum host-based WinPrinters that
doesn't emulate any other printer. So, I can't print in Linux, and I
have to boot to Win95 any time I want to print something. So, I created
a directory on one of my two VFAT partitions for all of my documents,
and moved them there so that I can access them in 95. But, now they are
all owned by root, so they are read-only to my other users.
So, I edited my fstab like so:
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults
1 1
/dev/hda1 /westside vfat user,defaults,rw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /southcentral vfat
user,defaults,rw 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults
0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat
user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
user,noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults
0 0
From what I understand about fstab and all that, I've got the /westside
and /southcentral paritions set up so that they default mount, can be
mounted and unmounted by any user, and should mount read-write. If I
check my mtab file with them mounted, they even show up as being mounted
read-write.
But, if I ls -l, they show up as only being read-write for root, and are
read/execute for other users. chmod a+rwx doesn't seem to have any
effect on the /southcentral partition or any subdirectories or files in
that partition, even when done by root.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks in advance,
Jeremy [fireproof@geocities.com]
--
Linux 2.2 is near! Windows users, REPENT!
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OK, I hope this hasn't been answered before. I tried to search the archives
and it didn't work.
<p>This is the deal:
<p>My old printer died. Since I'm poor, my parents gave me a printer. Unfortunately,
it's one of those daggum host-based WinPrinters that doesn't emulate any
other printer. So, I can't print in Linux, and I have to boot
to Win95 any time I want to print something. So, I created a directory
on one of my two VFAT partitions for all of my documents, and moved them
there so that I can access them in 95. But, now they are all owned by root,
so they are read-only to my other users.
<p>So, I edited my fstab like so:
<p>/dev/hda5
/
ext2 defaults
1 1
<br>/dev/hda1 /westside vfat user,defaults,rw 0 0
<br>/dev/hda6
/southcentral
vfat user,defaults,rw 0 0
<br>/dev/hda7
swap
swap defaults
0 0
<br>/dev/fd0
/mnt/floppy
vfat user,noauto
0 0
<br>/dev/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom
iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0
<br>none
/proc
proc defaults
0 0
<p>From what I understand about fstab and all that, I've got the /westside
and /southcentral paritions set up so that they default mount, can be mounted
and unmounted by any user, and should mount read-write. If I check my mtab
file with them mounted, they even show up as being mounted read-write.
<p>But, if I ls -l, they show up as only being read-write for root, and
are read/execute for other users. chmod a+rwx doesn't seem to have any
effect on the /southcentral partition or any subdirectories or files in
that partition, even when done by root.
<p>Am I missing something here?
<p>Thanks in advance,
<br>Jeremy [fireproof@geocities.com]
<pre>--
Linux 2.2 is near! Windows users, REPENT!</pre>
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