[TriLUG] FSTAB and mouting

[Aaron S. Joyner]

Roy Vestal wrote:

> I want to mount /dev/hdc to /data1 with a group, music with rwx perms. 
> It's an ext3. I can't for the life of me find it in the stupid man pages.
>
> Any suggestions?

I think you're trying to apply something you can do with a VFAT 
partition, to an ext3 partition.  If you check out the mount(8) man 
page, you'll see the uid= and gid= options under the fat filesystem 
section.  This sets the group which owns all files on the filesystem.  
Since there aren't file-specific ownership and group attributes, the 
filesystem driver uses a single user, as defined at mount time, via args 
passed to mount.  Because there are specific ownership and group 
attributes for each individual inode in the ext3 filesystem, there's not 
a natural way to "override" that with the mount command.  If you want a 
permanent way to change all files under /data1 after you mount it, you 
might consider something like this:
find /data1 -type f -exec chmod g+rwx \{\} \;
find /data1 -type f -exec chgrp $group \{\} \;

Add "-type f" if you want to apply those rules only to the files (you 
probably don't, but it seemed worth mentioning).

Aaron S. Joyner