Proper fstab options for the disk

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I have the following line in /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb3      /media/mybook    xfs     rw,auto,users                  0        0

The device is properly mounted and seen by root, but not by the normal user:

$ ls -al /media/
drwx-w---- 17  500 users 4096 2011-08-02 18:56 mybook

What should be changed in fstab to make it mount as rw for the normal user?

grawity · Answer 1 · 2011-08-06 12:04:16Z

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sudo chmod a=rwx /media/mybook

The permission bits are stored on disk with XFS, you cannot override them with mount options.

answered Aug 6 '11 at 12:04

grawity
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thank you, it really helped. I assume that I should probably chown it as well, as it stores uid (500) from the old system – Guard Aug 6 '11 at 15:32

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