[ubuntu-in] Automount ext4 partition in ubuntu 10.04

[Neel Mehta]

On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Nandan Marathe <nrmarathe at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 10:07 PM, Neel Mehta <neelmehta89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for your replies.
>>
>> "user" is to allow the user to mount the partition and to unmount it and
>> no other user other than which mounted it should be allowed to unmount it.
>> for "users", anyone can unmount it.
>>
>> the "uid" parameter does not work for ext4 partition.
>>
>> the options that i have now are default,auto. i just had to change file
>> permissions as Nitesh mentioned. actually, the folder /media/DISK1_VOL2 was
>> a root folder as it was created by mount, and hence I did not have any
>> permissions for that. so, i was unable to create any file/folder. but i m
>> still surprised by the fact that i can create files inside another partition
>> (/media/DISK1_VOL1) which is of ntfs format, even though the DISK1_VOL1
>> folder is a root folder.
>>
> Thats because the ntfs mount (either default ntfs or ntfs-3g) allows the
> gid uid parameters  in the fstab entries.
>

if i am correct, ntfs-3g is just to enable rw parameters. here is the ntfs
line from my fstab file:
UUID=30F4EB2DF4EAF44E /media/DISK1_VOL1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0
0


> for ext4 you
> would have to make the user the owner of the mounted folder. You can
> probably use pmount if you wish to allow mounting for non-root (sudo) users.
>

with mount also it works. just need to provide additional option/property -
user/users

>
>> Thanks and Regards,
>> Neel Mehta
>> Fourth year Undergraduate student,
>> Electrical Engineering,
>> IIT Bombay
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:05 PM, Nitesh Mistry <mailbox at mistrynitesh.net>wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 08:55:05PM +0530, Nitesh Mistry wrote:
>>> > Try adding 'uid=1000' to the options. It solved my problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> I guess I was a little short on explanation. '1000' here denotes my user
>>> id. Yours may be different (ie. if your's was not the first user to be
>>> created on the system). To find your uid, type 'id' in the terminal, and
>>> it will give you your uid number.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Nitesh Mistry
>>> www.mistrynitesh.com
>>>
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