Setting permissions on a new partition

[das]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 20:32 -0400, Ed Smits wrote:
> 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
> 

man fstab and man mount do have it all. Ok, as it seems, what you want
is deleting the 'default' part of the option in the fstab, and change it
to 'noauto,user', and as you have made it Reiser, you can also add
'noatime'. And also the check portion to '0 0'. So, portion becomes, if
say hdcZ is your partition:

# /dev/hdcZ
UUID=<something>  /mnt/data  reiserfs  noauto,noatime,user  0  0

It will give the user all permissions, but, obviously, as a user you
will have to mount it first to work on it. On my system, I give this
access only to me. And hence I have a 'parmount' script written, which
is run by my .bash_profile, when I log in. So, I don't have to mount it
by issuing command, but, it is under my power, not just root. The
'parmount' script is nothing but the mount command that I will have to
issue to mount it.