Setting permissions on a new partition

[Ed Smits]

perfect

Thanks, should have thought of that myself


ED

On 6/18/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
> Ed Smits wrote:
> >>From what I can see fstab doesn't deal with permissions - what should
> > I be using instead to set them. I could, of course, create a folder in
> > the partition as root and then set the permissions for the folder as
> > needed, however I'm wondering if there isn't a way to to do it for the
> > whole partition.
>
> Partitions don't really have permissions (okay, they do [in /dev], but
> it's always root-only unless you're crazy).  Mount-points do.  If that
> hint isn't enough:
>
> sudo chown -R ed:ed /mnt/oldfedora
>
> Matt Flaschen
>
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