Daniel Lawson wrote:
The umask option seems to be available only on FAT32 partitions and just adding user or users to the ext3 options doesn't do the trick.
This is because the FAT32 filesystem has no understanding of unix user and permission types itself, so the mount options you mentioned are used to fudge it a bit.
Yes, that's what I thought.
ext3 does understand unix users and permission types.
However, you should be very careful about resetting these permissions willy-nilly. From your post it would seem that you have another linux version installed onto hdd? (there's an hddboot partition you are mounting, which sounds like the boot partition of another linux install). If that's the case, be *very* *very* careful about changing permissions, as if you do the wrong thing you could stop that install of linux booting entirely.
Good point - I should have removed the boot partition from fstab.
If hdd is just another disk you wish to use, or has a linux install you will never want to boot again, feel free to carry on.
hdd has a previous version of Kubuntu, I am planning to use it for data. I was wondering if there is a simple way of making it available just to me as an ordinary user retaining the UUID system for security.
You need to use the "chown" command to change ownership of a file or directory to your user, and the "chmod" command to change permissions. Again, be very careful with these commands, as they can potentially damage or render useless your linux system.
I'm sure there's a good set of notes on how these things work on the wlug wiki, or round somewhere else, so I won't fill them in here for now.
Thanks for the prompt reply Rod