<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.10.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> Using that line doesn't work because it includes "user", as I already pointed out using options such as <TT> </TT><TT>umask, users, user, uid, gid don't work. Have you tried it? Thanks for the suggestion of reading man pages and howtos, I have been trawling through the mans of mount and fstab and as I said in email earlier already spent considerable time bouncing around the net. 8 hours later I am still exploring. </TT> Also I had already included a description of the error I see when attempting to mount a jfs partition using such switches as user/users/gid/uid. For your reference I have included it again below: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5, missing codepage or other error On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 11:47 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> > 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 -- The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>