[ale] Fstab confusion

[Jonathan Glass]

Change the permissions on /media to 775, and add chmod g+s to add the
group sticky bit so that all files created belong to the users group.

Executive Summary
chown :users /media
chmod 775 /media
chmod g+s /media

umount /media
mount /media

HTH

Jonathan Glass

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 14:31, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>     I've been trying for the last hour or so to have an ext3 partition
> automatically mounted with rw permission for all users in a  group
> called "users".  I seem to have hit a wall.  My fstab entry looks as such:
> 
> /dev/hda7                 /media           ext3
> auto,users,exec,grpid,rw               0     0
> 
>  From the documentation this should automount the partition on boot
> giving it the group permissions of the mount directory.  The mount
> directory has permissions 775 owned by root and group "users".  Doesn't
> seem to work.  Any ideas?  Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks,
> Calvin
> 
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