Joe, I think you need to look into setting that partition up in fstab. When there is no entry in fstab, a user cannot mount the filesystem. See http://www.bellevuelinux.org/etc_fstab.html
" If it is desired for all users to be able to use the partition or device freely, then this field should read: *user, auto, dev, exec, rw*." On 3/26/07, Joe Fruchey <jfruchey at gmail.com> wrote: > > You're saying to make one volume that takes up the whole disk? Then why > bother with LVM? > > On 3/26/07, Dustin Puryear < dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: > > > > If you don't know what to do with it, then def. use LVM. So, I'd do > > this: > > > > 1. Insert drive > > 2. fdisk as LVM > > 3. pvcreate /dev/sdX > > 4. vgcreate VolGroupXX /dev/sdX > > 5. lvcreate -n MyVolXX VolGroupXX -L 100GB > > 6. mkfs.ext3 /dev/VolGroupXX/MyVolXX > > 7. mount /dev/VolGroupXX/MyVolXX /home/shared > > > > --- > > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > > Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 > > http://www.puryear-it.com > > > > Author: > > "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > > "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" > > > > Download your free copies: > > http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm > > > > > > Monday, March 26, 2007, 1:46:03 PM, you wrote: > > > > > This is the first time I've ever dabbled with multiple drives in > > > Linux, and I don't know what to do. Where should I mount it? If I > > > mount it as a subdirectory of my home, then it's mine. What if > > > someone else wants to use it? I thought about something like > > > /var/storage, and I did that, but then I had permission problems > > > (because root mounted it, so root owned it). If I tried to 777 it, > > > it only went to 755. I couldn't chown or chgrp it either. I thought > > > reformatting the drive as vfat might solve the permission issues, but > > it did not. > > > > > sudo chown joe /var/storage > > > operation not permitted. > > > > > sudo chown joe ~/hdb1 > > > operation not permitted. > > > > > So what do I do? What filesystem should I use? > > > > > And yes, for future use, I'll throw an entry in fstab, I was just > > using mount for now. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > General at brlug.net > > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070326/ccf898d0/attachment.html
