[ale] Automounting partitions

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Fri Jan 11 21:51:05 EST 2002


/etc/fstab is the best way. Write permissions are both from fstab and
the permissions on the mount point as well. You must be a user or group
member with write permissions.

If the mount point is chmod/chown 700/root:root, no one but root can
write to it.

On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 18:12, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> What's the best way of mounting a partition automatically when I log in?
> If I mount it from /etc/fstab I don't have write access to it (as a regular 
> user)  I've tried using user,rw and a couple other directives in fstab but it 
> still doesn't let me write to the partition.  Thanks for any help.
> 
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