Hi, I'm a new DebianSlug new user, I've just installed it onto my new NSLU.
I've the following problem:

I've made a directory /share
owner is my user and group is the same
chown gettons: /share


it's ok for now

after I 've an ext3 partition on /dev/sda3 and I mount it

in fstab there is the following line about /dev/sda3

/dev/sda3 /share ext3 defaults,users 0 0

then...

I mount it with my user and he can mount it but ...

the directory /share now is property of root and group root and not
gettons gettons...
I can't understand why, in my linux box desktop I use slackware and the
same configuration is ok..

Also when I reboot the dir is property of root.If I umount that volume
/dev/sda3 I can see the dir /share where was mounted is still gettons
property.


Can you help, me?

I whish that dir will be property of my user only...and not root...


Thanks in advance.



Tommy

On Mon, 21 Aug 2006 20:21:42 +0200, tommaso
<gettons@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm a new DebianSlug new user, I've just installed it onto my new NSLU.
> I've the following problem:
>
> I've made a directory /share
> owner is my user and group is the same
> chown gettons: /share
>
>
> it's ok for now
>
> after I 've an ext3 partition on /dev/sda3 and I mount it
>
> in fstab there is the following line about /dev/sda3
>
> /dev/sda3 /share ext3 defaults,users 0 0
>
> then...
>
> I mount it with my user and he can mount it but ...
>
> the directory /share now is property of root and group root and not
> gettons gettons...
> I can't understand why, in my linux box desktop I use slackware and the
> same configuration is ok..
>
> Also when I reboot the dir is property of root.If I umount that volume
> /dev/sda3 I can see the dir /share where was mounted is still gettons
> property.
>
>
> Can you help, me?
>
> I whish that dir will be property of my user only...and not root...
>
>
Chown /share after you mount it.



--
"What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is
the exact opposite."
-- Bertrand Russell, _Sceptical_Essays_, 1928

tommaso wrote:
> Hi, I'm a new DebianSlug new user, I've just installed it onto my new NSLU.
> I've the following problem:
>
> I've made a directory /share
> owner is my user and group is the same
> chown gettons: /share
>
>
> it's ok for now
>
> after I 've an ext3 partition on /dev/sda3 and I mount it
>
> in fstab there is the following line about /dev/sda3
>
> /dev/sda3 /share ext3 defaults,users 0 0
>
> then...
>
> I mount it with my user and he can mount it but ...
>
> the directory /share now is property of root and group root and not
> gettons gettons...
> I can't understand why, in my linux box desktop I use slackware and the
> same configuration is ok..
>
> Also when I reboot the dir is property of root.If I umount that volume
> /dev/sda3 I can see the dir /share where was mounted is still gettons
> property.

A mounting point for a file system like your dierctory /share on / is
"covered" by the new file system in /dev/sda3 that is mounted on top op
/share. So what you see after mount is the new file systems rights,
not directory /share on your root file system (that is mounted on /).

So as Bill wrote, just run "chown myuser.mygroup /share", and all will
be well after that, as you chanded rights on the file system at
/dev/sd3..

Good luck