Can't share "/mnt/volume"

[Ned Dupont]

Bill,
Your points are very informative and I see what you are saying. It is
very logical and also what I figured. Although I did try changing
permissions on "/mnt/<directory>", I was not aware of the added "users"
option within "fstab". However, even after trying the "fstab" changes
(adding the "users" option), it still does not work. I just don't get
it. This has got be easier than this. In my case, the mount path is
"/mnt/Stuff". "/mnt/Stuff" already exists. I created the "Stuff"
directory myself. It is the same name that the volume I am trying to
mount is named. That volume is located on "/dev/hda2". Is that the
problem? The fact that the volume in question resides before my YDL
install volume?
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ned Dupont


On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 13:41, Longman, Bill wrote:
> > How do I allow users, other than ROOT, to SEE, and USE, the 
> > contents of
> > mounted volumes? Along a similar vein, why is it that, at 
> > start up (when
> > all the linux text is scrolling past my screen,"Updating /etc/fstab"
> > always fails?\Any ideas?
> 
> Ned, it's certainly typical for filesystems to be mounted only by root. You
> can add the "user" flag in the fstab file as one of the mount options on a
> given filesystem. Then whoever mounts it can unmount it. You can go crazy
> and use the "users" option, too. Then any ole user can mount and unmount at
> will. Sometimes this is not advisable....
> 
> In your case, you need to mount the filesystem on an existing directory. For
> instance, if in your fstab it says:
> 
> /dev/hda9 /mnt/volume hfs auto 1 1
> 
> then you'll have to make sure the /mnt/volume directory exists. Furthermore,
> the lone empty directory, /mnt/volume, as it exists *in the root directory*
> has its own permissions separate and distinct from the permissions that the
> filesystem acquires once it gets mounted there.
> 
> Look what happens when I mount my ISO image:
> 
> $ cd /
> $ ls -ld cd1
> drwxrwxr-x    2 root   root   4096 Jul  2 10:45 cd1/
> $ mount /cd1
> $ ls -ld cd1
> dr-xr-xr-x    9 root   root   4096 Mar 17 08:05 cd1/
> 
> This might help you solve the problem of getting others to mount and use
> filesystems. I don't know why the /etc/fstab error is appearing at boot,
> though. I suspect it might be from system device probes trying to add
> available entries in there (like USB drives, etc.).
> 
> Bill
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