Can't share "/mnt/volume"

[Ned Dupont]

Nope, nope, nope.
Nothing is working. I have changed the fstab file a number of times, I
have tried changing permissions on the mount directory both before and
after mounting, I have tried mounting automatically and manually, I have
tried to change the umask, but nothing works.My fstab entry, for that
particular volume is...
"/dev/hda2               /mnt/shared             hfs     auto,user,rw"
with no numbers at the end.
One thing I mentioned in an earlier email was that during start-up (when
all the linux text is scrolling up the screen), the line "UPDATING
FSTAB" always gets a "FAILED". Always. Do you think my current problems
are somehow associated with that failure?
Thanks,
Ned


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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