[Discuss] setting up a new server

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-07-30 22:00-0700 Andrew Burgess wrote:

> it would not allow my user to create or copy items. sad.

Andrew, I have reviewed this thread, and to make any further progress I
think you have to be a lot more specific about what you tried, exact error
messages, etc.  Otherwise, we are all just guessing.

For example, do you want the whole disk to be used as a very large /tmp?
If so, use the same permissions as /tmp.

N.B. As far as I know, the mount point (the usually empty directory 
that is overlayed by the mount command) has two sets of permissions, the
set of permissions before the mount and the set of permissions after
the mount.  Only the latter ones are relevant.

What are the permissions you are applying to the mount point _after_ the
mount?  Could we see some 'ls' output to confirm those?

If you are still having trouble with permissions for the whole disk
filesystem can you create a subdirectory with permissions that work? IOW can
you create a subdirectory of the mount point (post-mount) with the same
permissions as /tmp which everybody can use just like /tmp?

What is your /etc/fstab entry for the disk?

Alan
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