Setting permissions on a new partition

[Matthew Flaschen]

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