Two mounting questions

[S.M.Kelly]

Stefan,
Works great.  Thanks!  

**Anybody know now how to mount an iDisk?  : )

SMK

On Sunday 04 May 2003 11:47 pm, Stefan Bruda wrote:
> At 23:08 -0400 on 2003-5-4 S.M.Kelly wrote:
>  > I now have OS9 on hda9 using HFS, and OSX on hda10 using HFS+.  I
>  > can mount my hda9 fine now, but I want to change the permissions in
>  > fstab to enable any user to read and write to the partition as well
>  > as have it automount.  This partition will be my go-between for my
>  > OS's.
>
> This does not solve your problem completely, but to my knowledge is
> the closest solution possible.  Put a line like this in fstab:
>
> /dev/hda9    /mnt/macos    hfs     noauto,user     1  2
>
> It means that the partition is not automatically mounted at boot time,
> and is user mountable.  In other words, any user can do
>
>     mount /mnt/macos
>
> Of course, whomever mounts it owns all the files and directories on
> it, the disadvantage being that you cannot have any two users mounting
> it at the same time (and thus having both write access to it
> simultaneously).  Read access is on the other hand universal (as long
> as somebody mounts it) since the Linux HFS module attaches 655 as
> permissions to everything on a HFS partition.
>
> I am not aware of any way to change permissions on a HFS volume, it is
> probably not possible (I believe that the HFS filesystem does not have
> support for file ownership and permissions, but then I could be wrong
> just as well since I am not familiar with the HFS format).
>
> Hope this helps,
> Stefan