Setting permissions on a new partition

[Ed Smits]

I've just added a new partition to my Feisty system - I deleted an FC7
installation (got bored with trying to fix it<G>), formatted it to
reiserfs, and added it to fstab etc. After rebooting the partition is
there as expected, but only root can write to it. I've gone through
all the fstab man pages and FAQ's I can find, and none of them deal
with an added fixed partition and how to set permissions on it.

>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.


ED