New hard drive mounting rights problems ...

Alexander Dalloz alexander.dalloz at uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Jul 24 18:19:25 UTC 2004


Am Sa, den 24.07.2004 schrieb Marian POPESCU um 20:04:

> There is one thing, though, that a normal user cannot do:
> create a directory on lin1! Am I wrong?
> 
> [marian at mypc /]$ mkdir /mnt/lin1/mydir
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/lin1/mydir': Permission denied
> 
> Can I do something about it?
> 
> Marian

mount /mnt/lin1 and run "chmod 1777 /mnt/lin1". That will set the
permissions if you need the ability to have users being able to create
objects at top inside the mounted filesystem. You must run the chmod
command on the mountpoint after you mounted the device.

Alexander


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