Fstab and JFS

[Alexander Skwar]

Gabriel M Dragffy wrote:
> Further research of mine has uncovered that  JFS doesn't have support
> for such things as umask, users, user, uid, gid when mounting it. Please
> correct me if I'm wrong.

You're right - but JFS is in good company of ext2, ext3, xfs, reiserfs,
reiser4 and any other supported unix file system :)

Those options are for filesystems which do NOT support unix file permissions,
like FAT.

> Using a line like
> sudo mount -t jfs -o rw,user /dev/hda5 /server
> DOESN'T WORK

How does it NOT work? Filesystem is mounted, no? If not, that's strange.

> sudo mount -t jfs -o rw /dev/hda5 /server
> Does work, but only superuser has write permissions. What gives?

Gives, that you should read the man page again. Or maybe some basic
unix howto.

Alexander Skwar
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